Actually, quite a number of those "[pannings]" were for issues unrelated to the content, like the paging, or the website not working under Opera.
They've come a long way in a short amount of time on things like that (particularly the web browser support - we now test under more than triple the amount of browsers we used to).
The Slashdot onslaught, in part, prompted that, so I say, if further articles mean that the site improves further to become a better source of news for sites like Slashdot, all the better.
I'm in an area affected by the connection issues as well (Malaysia), but I took a more polished, simple solution. In a word, TOR.
Not only have I set up my own network to use a squid-privoxy-tor system to provide relatively fast internet to sites I couldn't access at all before (slashdot for one), but I've been recommending and teaching others how to use Torpark so that they can still get their slashdot, youtube, etc, fixes.
It does use the arrow pad, but sometimes it's just easier to do *everything* with the touchpad. And as to listing all the actions on screen, how the would the user select items in the inventory? Not to mention that each action takes a whole lot more space than a key, you'd have to scroll through an enormous list of actions to get to what you want.
You could always use amsn-remote, if you don't mind still having amsn actually running, even if invisible.
Using the bitlbee service in a console IRC client (I think there are win32 builds of irssi out there) - it's been a lifesaver for me.
Really?
I would have chosen him typecasting the return value of closedir, when he's not going to store it (and casting it to void, no less) - I've checked and this doesn't even generate a warning in GCC when compiling with -Wall
I expect most slashdotters have already known about google shipping number lookups, etc, for months now, but I noticed a new feature on google's feature page just the other day... pre-fetching!
It looks to be a well thought out technology, hopefully the other browsers will adopt the handling too, and it will grow and make surfing the internet practically instantaneous (yes, I do realize that it only pre-fetches and headers with the pre-fetch keyword, but I can dream)
Are you certain you don't mean free as in beer, in your post?
If the services you use are truly only free as in speech (i.e. the schematics for them are published, or they can be signed up for by anyone and used by anyone how they see fit), then surely at least the first part of your post is moot?
Notice the double negative? The grandparent was indeed implying that even if it wasn't discussed here, the blackhats would have thought about it, not that they only get their ideas from others.
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Actually, quite a number of those "[pannings]" were for issues unrelated to the content, like the paging, or the website not working under Opera. They've come a long way in a short amount of time on things like that (particularly the web browser support - we now test under more than triple the amount of browsers we used to). The Slashdot onslaught, in part, prompted that, so I say, if further articles mean that the site improves further to become a better source of news for sites like Slashdot, all the better.
Those are RSS feeds, not spam - you can remove them or pick your own feeds from your settings.
I'm in an area affected by the connection issues as well (Malaysia), but I took a more polished, simple solution. In a word, TOR. Not only have I set up my own network to use a squid-privoxy-tor system to provide relatively fast internet to sites I couldn't access at all before (slashdot for one), but I've been recommending and teaching others how to use Torpark so that they can still get their slashdot, youtube, etc, fixes.
It does use the arrow pad, but sometimes it's just easier to do *everything* with the touchpad.
And as to listing all the actions on screen, how the would the user select items in the inventory? Not to mention that each action takes a whole lot more space than a key, you'd have to scroll through an enormous list of actions to get to what you want.
You could always use amsn-remote, if you don't mind still having amsn actually running, even if invisible. Using the bitlbee service in a console IRC client (I think there are win32 builds of irssi out there) - it's been a lifesaver for me.
Really? I would have chosen him typecasting the return value of closedir, when he's not going to store it (and casting it to void, no less) - I've checked and this doesn't even generate a warning in GCC when compiling with -Wall
I expect most slashdotters have already known about google shipping number lookups, etc, for months now, but I noticed a new feature on google's feature page just the other day... pre-fetching! It looks to be a well thought out technology, hopefully the other browsers will adopt the handling too, and it will grow and make surfing the internet practically instantaneous (yes, I do realize that it only pre-fetches and headers with the pre-fetch keyword, but I can dream)
I personally wouldn't classify a social engineer (a.k.a. phisher) as a hacker...
Are you certain you don't mean free as in beer, in your post? If the services you use are truly only free as in speech (i.e. the schematics for them are published, or they can be signed up for by anyone and used by anyone how they see fit), then surely at least the first part of your post is moot?
Notice the double negative?
The grandparent was indeed implying that even if it wasn't discussed here, the blackhats would have thought about it, not that they only get their ideas from others.