Most of the visual elements have been available in the nix world for decades.
And you, sir, are a big part of what's keeping me on windows. I've tried various linux distros, I actually prefer linux to windows, but the main problem with linux is you have to rely on the userbase for support and updates and evidently a lot of the userbase doesn't have the best grip on reality. In my experience a lot of the userbase are elitists who will gladly spend ages preaching about how great linux is to everybody whether or not linux is the best OS for them, but they're not prepared to help out those who actually want to make the switch from windows to linux.
A decade is 10 years, 10 years ago the majority of PC users were on win 95 or win 3.1, decades is plural so that's at least 20 years, I'm only 22 years old so I don't know what was going on in the *nix world 20 years ago, but judging by the monochrome unix box sitting in my cupboard that's around as old as me there wasn't many visual elements available and since vista required a graphics card with more memory than the average PC had 10 years ago I'd be interested in finding out what visual elements that are new in vista were available over 20 years ago in *nix.
It's probably too late to be modded in this article, but if I do I'll probably get modded as a troll, but that's the dumbest comment I've seen modded insightful in a long time
I imagine the legitimate use for an uncensored image host is much the same as the legitimate use for any other hosting site, I'm not sure how much I'll use it since I'm on the most part happy using photobucket, but I know a couple of years ago I'd have used it a lot since a (torrent) site I was very active on was blacklisted by imageshack and a number of other image hosts.
Imageshack and photobucket are two of the most popular image hosts out there, both blacklist sites for illegal content, nudity and anything else they deem immoral and both have rather strict rules about what's allowed, I'm not sure about imageshack, but I know for a fact photobucket will delete even tasteful artsy nude photographs (I had one deleted from my account), both don't allow racist/bigoted material (I may not like it, but that doesn't mean it should be censored and there's plenty of "legitimate" political party's out there that could be deemed racist or bigoted), any sort of sexually explicit images or any sort of gore and the majority of big image hosts out there seem to have similar restrictions on what's allowed and not everybody can afford to pay for proper hosting so they can host their own images.
/r/ Kandie video
It's actually not too hard to be b& from 4chan without posting CP seeing as you can get banned for anything, all you need to do is piss off a mod, you'll get b& and everybody will laugh, maybe screenshot your post if it's funny enough and go about their business.
So these "virtual rape victims" have to be examined by the police and have pictures taken for evidence? They have to have STD and HIV tests again and again just to make sure nothing was missed? They have to have pregnancy tests and possibly even abortions? They go through life remembering pretty much every moment of the attack?
Yes, you can get upset by things that happen online, I've been emotionally hurt through online relationships, I've seen some really sick shit that makes goatse seem like nothing, but at the end of the day none of it comes close to what a real life rape victim must go through and if things get too tough all you need to do is pull the plug and walk away, sure some of it might still effect you, but you're not in any danger and nothing in the real world's actually changed other than your mindset.
I'm pretty sure any real rape victim would gladly trade places with even the worst virtual "rape" victim.
People have been using old car radiators for water cooling for ages, probably before the advent of commercial water cooling kits, so I don't see what the big deal is. A quick google search shows that people using car radiators for water cooling is nothing new so I'd hardly class this as news.
PNG was designed as a replacment for the GIF format, it's not designed for storing photos, PNG is good for images with large areas of contiguous colour and sharp edges such as cartoons and logos. PNG can handle true colour fine, but in my experience it creates massive file sizes for photos, which you don't want in an environment where space is extremely limited such as on a digital camera.
Welcome Slashdot readers! Just so's y'all know, you folks are setting serious records for the number of individual users on the server at once (peaking around 1000 right now instead of the typical 80 or 100). Now, on to what you're probably looking for:
Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication TOP <#top> e-POSHTA subscriber Mary Mycio writes:
I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph Henry Press. Several sources have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last e-POSHTA mailing. Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago.
I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.
She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip through a Kyiv travel agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her father). They were given the same standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone. When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site.
Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading.
I would not normally bother to correct someone's silly Chornobyl fantasy. Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in "Ghost Town" would consume as much space as the Web site itself. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know.
Mary Mycio, J.D.
Legal Program Director IREX U-Media Shota Rustaveli St. 38b, No. 16 Kyiv 01023, Ukraine Tel: (380-44) 220-6374, 228-6147 Fax: 227-7543
Slashdot readers: You liked the chernobyl motorcycling? Check out this abandoned Aircraft Carrier!
I find it amusing that there's a post in Parry Aftab's blog about Identity Theft Insurance, yet she's helping with the theft of somebody's online identity.
..a slow news day? ..april the 1st? ..me or has the quality of slashdot articles really been going downhill recently?
or is slashdot now a blog where funny emails get published on the front page?
I used linuxmail.org for around 2 years prior to getting my gmail account and I can honestly say it sucks, it's slow and unreliable (mail not being recived or taking at least 5 minutes to be recived), there's a lot of downtime (probably only something like 1 day a month or every two, but it's a pain), it lacks a lot of basic features (filtering, blocking, forwarding) and every so often when trying to view your mail or your inbox you get a full page ad asking you if you want to sign up to linuxmail premium which is usally followed by an error message reading "Unable to connect to mail server" (for some reason it mostly seems to happen when you get the annoying ads).
Welcome Slashdot readers! Just so's y'all know, you folks are setting serious records for the number of individual users on the server at once (peaking around 1000 right now instead of the typical 80 or 100). Now, on to what you're probably looking for:
Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication TOP <#top> e-POSHTA subscriber Mary Mycio writes:
I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph Henry Press. Several sources have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last e-POSHTA mailing. Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago.
I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.
She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip through a Kyiv travel agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her father). They were given the same standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone. When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site.
Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading.
I would not normally bother to correct someone's silly Chornobyl fantasy. Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in "Ghost Town" would consume as much space as the Web site itself. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know.
Mary Mycio, J.D.
Legal Program Director IREX U-Media Shota Rustaveli St. 38b, No. 16 Kyiv 01023, Ukraine Tel: (380-44) 220-6374, 228-6147 Fax: 227-7543
Slashdot readers: You liked the chernobyl motorcycling? Check out this abandoned Aircraft Carrier!
It clumps auto notifications from forums and livejournal as conversations
I see this as a good thing since rather than having 1 email listed in my inbox per forum post, I've got 1 per forum thread. This works with vBulletin, but it may work differently with other forum systems depending on the subject line they use for notification.
hides "quoted text" which actually is the important part of the email...
Why do you need the quoted text when you have your original message above the reply? Again I see that as a good thing since the quoted text often takes up the most of the email and makes it harder to read the actual message, with the threaded system I can expand previous messages when needed or I can simply click "- Show quoted text -":)
The rise of gmail has extended emails life span by offering users 1gb of space, causing other email providers such as hotmail and yahoo to sit up and take notice, they upped their storage space quite a bit to try and compete and a lot of other email providers will follow suit while trying to beat and match the features offered by their competitors (the vast majority of users want features rather than integrity, take windows for example), which should breath some much needed life into email.
Gmail has a few nice features that no other email service offers (that I'm aware of anyway), my favourite being the threaded messenger which make a great pseudo instant messanger service and quite a few people have been using it as such, myself included. I suspect the majority of email addresses out there are web based and thanks to gmail storage space is becoming less of an issue so it may once again become practical to send email attachments for something other than spreading viruses.
For me at least email is no where near dead and I think it's going to be around for a lot longer or at least until somebody comes up with a workable alternative.
If local councils spent more time and money trying to clean up the streets they wouldn't need to waste time and money prosecuting those who do it for them, albeit they're rather selective about what parts of the surface they clean, but maybe it will help highlight how filthy our surroundings are.
Advertising companys shoudn't be able to hire people to clean their logos or slogans into grime since the dirt and soot shouldn't be allowed to build up to that level in the first place.
"steal me!"
The phone has some nice features (XHTML browser for one), but all the LEDs seem to do is advertise to would-be theives that you've got an expensive phone.
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And you, sir, are a big part of what's keeping me on windows. I've tried various linux distros, I actually prefer linux to windows, but the main problem with linux is you have to rely on the userbase for support and updates and evidently a lot of the userbase doesn't have the best grip on reality. In my experience a lot of the userbase are elitists who will gladly spend ages preaching about how great linux is to everybody whether or not linux is the best OS for them, but they're not prepared to help out those who actually want to make the switch from windows to linux.
A decade is 10 years, 10 years ago the majority of PC users were on win 95 or win 3.1, decades is plural so that's at least 20 years, I'm only 22 years old so I don't know what was going on in the *nix world 20 years ago, but judging by the monochrome unix box sitting in my cupboard that's around as old as me there wasn't many visual elements available and since vista required a graphics card with more memory than the average PC had 10 years ago I'd be interested in finding out what visual elements that are new in vista were available over 20 years ago in *nix.
It's probably too late to be modded in this article, but if I do I'll probably get modded as a troll, but that's the dumbest comment I've seen modded insightful in a long time
I imagine the legitimate use for an uncensored image host is much the same as the legitimate use for any other hosting site, I'm not sure how much I'll use it since I'm on the most part happy using photobucket, but I know a couple of years ago I'd have used it a lot since a (torrent) site I was very active on was blacklisted by imageshack and a number of other image hosts.
Imageshack and photobucket are two of the most popular image hosts out there, both blacklist sites for illegal content, nudity and anything else they deem immoral and both have rather strict rules about what's allowed, I'm not sure about imageshack, but I know for a fact photobucket will delete even tasteful artsy nude photographs (I had one deleted from my account), both don't allow racist/bigoted material (I may not like it, but that doesn't mean it should be censored and there's plenty of "legitimate" political party's out there that could be deemed racist or bigoted), any sort of sexually explicit images or any sort of gore and the majority of big image hosts out there seem to have similar restrictions on what's allowed and not everybody can afford to pay for proper hosting so they can host their own images.
/r/ Kandie video It's actually not too hard to be b& from 4chan without posting CP seeing as you can get banned for anything, all you need to do is piss off a mod, you'll get b& and everybody will laugh, maybe screenshot your post if it's funny enough and go about their business.
So these "virtual rape victims" have to be examined by the police and have pictures taken for evidence? They have to have STD and HIV tests again and again just to make sure nothing was missed? They have to have pregnancy tests and possibly even abortions? They go through life remembering pretty much every moment of the attack?
Yes, you can get upset by things that happen online, I've been emotionally hurt through online relationships, I've seen some really sick shit that makes goatse seem like nothing, but at the end of the day none of it comes close to what a real life rape victim must go through and if things get too tough all you need to do is pull the plug and walk away, sure some of it might still effect you, but you're not in any danger and nothing in the real world's actually changed other than your mindset.
I'm pretty sure any real rape victim would gladly trade places with even the worst virtual "rape" victim.
People have been using old car radiators for water cooling for ages, probably before the advent of commercial water cooling kits, so I don't see what the big deal is. A quick google search shows that people using car radiators for water cooling is nothing new so I'd hardly class this as news.
PNG was designed as a replacment for the GIF format, it's not designed for storing photos, PNG is good for images with large areas of contiguous colour and sharp edges such as cartoons and logos. PNG can handle true colour fine, but in my experience it creates massive file sizes for photos, which you don't want in an environment where space is extremely limited such as on a digital camera.
The original site was hosted on angelfire which is now down, but a mirror can be found here.
Unfortuantly as I posted a little earlier the story's a fake.
I find it amusing that there's a post in Parry Aftab's blog about Identity Theft Insurance, yet she's helping with the theft of somebody's online identity.
Wonder what their defense would be if they got caught pointing the rifle at someone.
Hopefully kevlar.
..a slow news day?
..april the 1st?
..me or has the quality of slashdot articles really been going downhill recently?
or is slashdot now a blog where funny emails get published on the front page?
I used linuxmail.org for around 2 years prior to getting my gmail account and I can honestly say it sucks, it's slow and unreliable (mail not being recived or taking at least 5 minutes to be recived), there's a lot of downtime (probably only something like 1 day a month or every two, but it's a pain), it lacks a lot of basic features (filtering, blocking, forwarding) and every so often when trying to view your mail or your inbox you get a full page ad asking you if you want to sign up to linuxmail premium which is usally followed by an error message reading "Unable to connect to mail server" (for some reason it mostly seems to happen when you get the annoying ads).
Am I the only one who read the subject and thought this was going to be a story about an in-car entertainment system that could store 1,700 MPEGs?
Yes they were, but unfortuantly they were fake;
I see this as a good thing since rather than having 1 email listed in my inbox per forum post, I've got 1 per forum thread. This works with vBulletin, but it may work differently with other forum systems depending on the subject line they use for notification.
hides "quoted text" which actually is the important part of the email...
Why do you need the quoted text when you have your original message above the reply? Again I see that as a good thing since the quoted text often takes up the most of the email and makes it harder to read the actual message, with the threaded system I can expand previous messages when needed or I can simply click "- Show quoted text -" :)
Gmail has a few nice features that no other email service offers (that I'm aware of anyway), my favourite being the threaded messenger which make a great pseudo instant messanger service and quite a few people have been using it as such, myself included. I suspect the majority of email addresses out there are web based and thanks to gmail storage space is becoming less of an issue so it may once again become practical to send email attachments for something other than spreading viruses.
For me at least email is no where near dead and I think it's going to be around for a lot longer or at least until somebody comes up with a workable alternative.
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People really need to learn to never trust the user when it comes to entering valid data.
If local councils spent more time and money trying to clean up the streets they wouldn't need to waste time and money prosecuting those who do it for them, albeit they're rather selective about what parts of the surface they clean, but maybe it will help highlight how filthy our surroundings are.
Advertising companys shoudn't be able to hire people to clean their logos or slogans into grime since the dirt and soot shouldn't be allowed to build up to that level in the first place.
Sounds like Hellsing to me, I highly recomend it and the anime of it.
"steal me!" The phone has some nice features (XHTML browser for one), but all the LEDs seem to do is advertise to would-be theives that you've got an expensive phone.