Half-witted dopes, (including penny arcade AND too feeble to mention swedish dorks) make POOR CASES against the pithy twatish remarks of the people who seek to make their money out of litigating the fuck out of the games industry, and at the same time restricting the themes we are allowed to be exposed to in the games we purchase.
Example: Fack Humpson (identity protected to keep his fucking name out of press) states that he wants more enforcement for age ratings on games. Rather than AGREE that enforcing them would be good, people from another too feeble to mention podcast quip, in their prepubescent voices, erm aaah uuh well, erm, that erm, yes, werm, no, but SHUT THE FUCK UP you asshats.
Rather than state that Fack Humpson also has a tumorous misconception (and ulterior motive) to censor the violence in games, and make assertions that freedom to simulate violence in games is no different from that of a movie (lest we not forget the fact that it is interactive is important, but so is our right to enjoy it...).
No, the 'voice' of the gaming public are ill-witted, clueless and being manipulated by these people, like bloggers who cry 'blogger rights', only to find that they have, in their acts of always mixing the word blogger with everything that people who gave away secrets were bloggers, not traitors, people who downloaded copyright material were torrent users, not thieves.
The very idiots who try to oppose these movements criminalise the common verbiage that represents them. Our brains work with string programming, and people aren't all that bright.
The fact that a move would be made to stop violent games in the future is purely the fault of those who vocally confused the media in their attempts to stop the people who seek to profit from litigating the asses off twat companies like Take Two, and the people who regulate the industry.
I feel every game should have the ability to remove swear words and blood, and even gratuitous violence. If moves were made to do this, then there would be an outlet for the crazed motivation of hundreds of time wasting people to try and parent everyone's children for them.
This would stop the only current option they see which is 'ban t3h violent gamez!' because they do not know what games are, how they are made, or what is possible, they are stupid. And so are we.
The fact that cartoon are more violent is a telling one, violence isn't bad, a can of soda can open VIOLENTLY. Fireworks are VIOLENCE. Acts and stories of inhumanity are damaging and disturbing.
I recall being quoted from a book a guy was reading, where, when a soldier was trying to rape a woman, he couldn't get it up, so he raped her with his bayonet.
The way the author wrote it was as dry and plain as possible, without dressing, to allow the full horror into the person's head. I still feel anger and sickness when I recall first hearing this read.
In a film, or a game, or a song, the impact may be more sickening or gruesome, but the concept of hate and malice and hurting an innocent person is truly dire.
If bugs or road runner ever were to get really hurt, that would be quite a shock, for all the fakes deaths that send the perpetrator into tears.
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I love how they then threw the blobs at earth, and let them cook through the atmosphere, and land in a martian like (non life) environment.
In a humans mind, they imagine life being started by a ball of lovely alive things, floating to the surface which is already teeming with an alive ecosystem, nitrogen cycle, water, o2 and co2.
People are so blinkered. Anything from 'FAR FAR AWAY' must be true, for any sufficiently large value of FAR or AWAY (on in some cases 'LONG TIME AGO').
ooooh scarey unimaginable things from space!!! wooooo woooo woooooohohohoowowowowowow fucking hypocritical darwinist bastard monkeys.
Javascript is fantastic - THE IMPLEMENTATION OF JAVASCRIPT on the other hand, on IE, is SHIT.
Dump IE. (boycott 7.0 people are saying)
Also, I think we should dump HTML for SiTeML, a new language we should design ground up to be specifically designed for the new CSS 3.0 - and for AJAX based applications, with a standardized DOM. Design based, with little features making it good for programmers (like a more extensible dom and class structure).
If we make the design 100% complete, and do not allow for inconsistencies, and web designers go for it, and write the imlementation for firefox (to render SiTeML pages) then IE will have to follow, or become obsolete.
There are too many HTML / DOM / JS / CSS hacks. Lets rip it down and start a new ground definition, a new 1.0, a new type of document, so our weak human minds are not always thinking about 'backwards compatibility'.
If you expect anyone with an older browser to HAVE an ftp client installed to access ftp (command line IS a client too) then you can expect someone to have an XHTML compatible browser to view XHTML pages, and fuck them if they don't.
There is nothing saying a browser can't run on 5 year old machines.
SiTeML, the future. Or at least until M$ has one last go at assfucking us all.
regards,
Tod
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You can make all (latest) OS's look pixelly identical with a screenshot.
I hope OpenSolaris gains some ground, I want to play with it. I think I should, since I use solaris on many companies servers all around. It seems to have had some real innovative thought at all kinda of dark and dank levels.
*sigh* despite firefox (yes you, I am looking at you evil version 1.0.7) b0rking the fuck out of this post (in its cute, 'OMG look, I can just close magically' trick) I write it again... without the preamble...
The title about the torrent guy getting sentenced is totally misleading.
I rewrote the first two lines, because I forgot what I originally wrote
==t3h fucking po3m==
I fucking hate firefox, because of late, Its one success is making me irate. Its obvious his crimes were copyright, Not protocol or application, right.
Well better than nothing. Thanks firefox, you bastard.
*sigh* poont you shortsighted bastards. Why bother? because some peoples only claim to fame is being born with opposable bloody thumbs. And we all have to live with stupid people like that every day.
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PS: yeah, watch the moderators put this in flamebait hell, I am beyond caring.
Parent post is b0rked, here is real one
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I am assuming this comment was on the yankeedoodledandy side of the pond, but I don't know if you heard what has happened in France after two (admittedly theiving little asswipes) kids killed *themselves* after running away from the police.
A bit of a kerfuffle.
Even if people don't care about the lives of people they don't know, at least they relish the ammunition against bush and co, and although, if I may make this statement: dumb asshats for letting him dupe you twice, and dumb asshats for being the seat of liberty and freedom with an unelected guy calling the shots (literally) and doing what he pleases.
America, home of the corporate dicatorship - the worst insult: THE WORST INSULT?
These people who are doing this, are not even cautious, or subtle, or intelligent and they are getting away with it.
Amazing. Sickening. Damn, I wish I could do that instead of them.
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I am assuming this comment was on the yankeedoodledandy side of the pond, but I don't know if you heard what has happened in France after two (admittedly theiving little asswipes) kids killed >themselvesTHE WORST INSULT?
These people who are doing this, are not even cautious, or subtle, or intelligent and they are getting away with it.
Amazing. Sickening. Damn, I wish I could do that instead of them.
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You gotta fight..... for your right... to ffaaaaaacebooook!
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Kids nowwadays, why don't they go outside and take good old fashioned mind altering drugs, instead of flashing their midriffs all about the intarwebnet, they could be doing it for real outside!
I guess it was too hard for the proffs to concentrate, and the popes blogroll was getting far too steamy...
pikka
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Whilst not accurate - parent is *not* flamebait
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This is a weapon for temporary disable the suspect. Like mace. Like a flashbang. The previous methodology was called 'POONT' and involved lightly peppering the vehicle and its occupants with small gauge munitions, dare I say 9-11mm rounds. About 500 should do the trick, one of them is bound to miss an occupant and look like a warning shot, or hit the tyres.
You are right, it is not illegal to shoot someone, or force a foot long metal blade into their vital organs, while they are looking at you in the eyes. However, if that blade is rusty, you are in violation of the Geneva convention - where the poor sod might get an infection.
So, dying of an infection versus dying after being punched kicked and stabbed.
No matter how we try to dress war up, it is still never legal. War doesn't make it legal to kill people. People make it legal to kill people, it is our definition, and it is shocking.
I do not know why someone hasn't sued to try and get civilian death rates reported from this war in iraq. It is terrible.
The flamebait post shows just how mad society is. Mad I tell you! The doctors thought I was mad, but they are laughing on the other side of their disfigured faces now hheheh heheh ehehehheaahuaha aa aheeahmea!!
In all seriousness - no wonder CmdrTaco's spelling has improved - all these 'type in the word here' shenanigans on/. but no doubt he has some kind of magic CmdrCookie that does this all for him.
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What if some hungry and / or amorous rabbits are enjoying the beets near the pipes?
Seismic activity?
Temperature changes?
Planes flying overhead? (sound)
I am not sure how they can remove all this tiny tremors and vibrations and details from their detection equipment. I wish they would publish a 'how it works' that deals with stuff like that. It will be on my mind all day now.
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Microsoft -> $ -> SCO -> $ -> Linux companies i.e. IBM
Anything else? No SAMBA it was done by scaring the people into licenses and stuff, I forget, but I do not say they litigated against them, but they tried to stop it.
In case you find my website [george-harrison.info] a little too hard to find, I have linked my name on slashdot to include the word 'Beatles' which in effect makes this a spam link, designed specifically to place those words in the google page rank for my site.
It does this in the name of slashdot, since it is slashdots own pagerank that will be used to gauge how important my site is for those keywords.
But, like, please make my page come up on google near the top, because of my l33t circa 1995 web design sk1llz.
Thanks!
Guy from slashdot.
Dear cowboyneal
Do some work, tomorrow I want to see the link from name and the actual html split, even though this also affects the google algorithm, less so. Maybe then people won't start submitting stories like:
viagra cialis tamiflu writes "Microsoft have once again...."
etc. Also they are not random letters.
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yet it seems MS is not allowed to add a feature unless they thought of it themselves.
While at the same time using licensing, proprietary code and patents to destroy real innovation by cutting off the base of the work, fund SCO to try and rip apart linux, yet never actually public admit to this.
That is what pisses me off, and continues to piss me off is that no reporter worth his salt has reported this.
Microsoft will litigate the hell out of projects that make linux too useful or easy to migrate within a windows shop. *cough* samba *cough*.
They also bundle things up - so they have control of key functionality. Name one consumer area of computing where microsoft doesn't bundle and destroy, against a competitor?
Even word/frontpage against dreamweaver.
I can only hope someone takes control of GIMP and NVU comes up with the goods so Adobe can go fusk themselves with their photoshop, 'digital negative' and now macromedia bumf.
GIMP needs a release that is gimp, but with less buttons, and less advanced features, and MORE basic features.
And programatic brushes (procedural brushes). OMFG I would even write those if it wasn't written in an ancient programming language. bah.
The GIMP or K's art package, I will check them out again tonight, and see how they fair.
Do you install an automatic line listener to play random audio to them when they stop talking?
Do you tell them you like the sound of their voice, breathe heavily and fap fap fap fap fap?
Heck if it *is* a sexy female voice, say in a husky, tense voice "Tell me about how much I can *ugh* SaaaAve on calls again... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *breathing*"
You think with tactics like this they may have their *own* internal do not call list?
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Great subtle nudge at grandparent. Said all I said in about 2000 less words.
I have another theory called the widget theory, where aliens land in a Taiwanese (apologies for econo-typing) widget factory and regard them as dead fossils.
They start to charter the evolution between disparate and unrelated 'species' using 'genetic' variables such as number of sides, colours, materials, spigots, gromits and twidly bits.
The idea is, any chaotic sequence can be classified ad infinitum. Any random collection of organisms sharing the basic building blocks of like can be categorized like a periodic table, and made to look like evolution took place.
You take all the elements that we know of... jiggle them around, and suddenly relationships form.
Yet we are pretty sure elements didn't evolve through natural selection... Hang on how did elements come about?
Oh no, grandparent is an evolutionist; he takes great pride in not having to deal with inconsistencies like the building block of existence and reality.
As long as he doesn't have to explain how the rock came about, or how the rock became a fish, or how the fish became a monkey, he can just point at monkeys and humans, and go 'look, gotta be right ain't it, I mean, we taught this one sign language! innit?'.
Welcome to the world of comfortable science. If science makes you uncomfortable, just act like the Catholic Church, or an angst-ridden king, and behead opponents with litigation, or burn them at the stake with the ACLU, civil liberties for everyone [who agrees with us, and is not some crazy Christian type!].
ACLU: Anti-Christian Litigation Union
Welcome to the freedom to express your views and beliefs, and a freedom to hear and read about others.
A great word - lets look at a few things, and make you cower under the table when you realise how little of a foothold you have in reality and science. I pray that you have some expensive and hard earned certificates, diplomas or PhD to hold on to, or to help clean yourself with afterwards.
Lets define what theories we are talking about. The first is Evolution, capital E, that is the theory every 'scientist' on slashdot or otherwise pushes as:
'OMGzz urt3h stupid this is FACT if it wasn't theory!!1'.
Yet, when asked for this theory, they show you evolution, little e. It depends on the conclusions you draw from this theory. Now that is established, the second theory is 'intelligent design' (which I do not condone - but as an open minded person I have to kneecap you for your ignorance anyway).
I am not going to artificially demarcate either theory based on our limited knowledge, but this exercise in logic should expose you for the charlatan that you are.
Theory 1: You claim this is a falsifiable theory, but on what grounds? Falsifiable means something else is provable that is mutually exclusive. I.e. you can find something that is true that will show this to be false. It may be the same thing. Read some Doyle.
Theory 2: On what grounds do you state this is not falsifiable or testable? Based on our existing knowledge and ability to measure things? You are blinkered, and thus unscientific. Are you yourself clouded by religion?
Macro-evolution is [...] a testable and falsifiable theory.
[...] ID on the other hand is neither testable nor falsifiable
I would love to know explicitly why theory 1 is testable, why theory 1 is falsifiable, why theory 2 is not testable and why theory 2 is not falsifiable.
By what grounds to you measure if macroevolution is testable or falsifiable? You simply state that it is. And why is ID neither testable nor falsifiable? You again, just state this. If you use our current understanding and means as a basis for your response, then you are incorrect. The theory that the world is round would be valid if someone knew how to test it or not.
Based on evidence that we see, both theories exist. Based on the evidence people saw, as ships disappeared in the distance, the theory was valid - and was certainly not testable or falsifiable by the means until someone discovered the means to do this.
Was this when man first went into space? What do we accept as proof? Mathematics, a concept that we are so comfortable with? Our measurements, our own eyes or judgment?
For you to call one un-testable, and not the other, is very closed-minded. It is very likely that Evolution can never be falsified in human terms - if not a fact that it cannot be falsified, or proven, or tested.
I am sure evidence can be interpreted to point that way. If it is true or not, it is highly likely that this is the case. And if you cannot admit that, that is strike two for you.
I am able to say that Evolution may never be falsifiable or testable, even under the pretence that is may be fact. I am also able to state that we may indeed test and prove or falsify it in the future. However, you do not posses the acumen to do the same? For either theory?
You are ignoring a large hole in a theory, you are ignoring the words of the grandparent post, ejecting the idea of micro and macro evolution so you can just open your mouth, say something you are comfortable with, and hope nobody has the time to show you what a whimpering coward of a mind you posses.
You attack another theory by the same grounds by which you ignore the faults in your own theory, one you like to call your own anyway.
You take a leap of faith by stating you believe that macro evolution took place, and, stone me for including the act of abiogenesis into the frame, because evolutionists love to talk long and wide about everything and anything, but they protect the boundaries
Every time a company competes against them, they curl up, whine, throw chairs... and then slowly... slowly they look and say, hey, so what are they doing to compete against us?
oooh I see... hrm... well that ain't so bad, and if we add our own evil touch, we could make even more money from this! why didn't we think of this before? !!!!
Microsoft have had a "don't rock teh b0at" attitude for a while, a few simple techniques of removing existing functionality (search in windows XP) to slel it again in a later version (you know) and doing the same with office products has kept them going.
Should Microsoft get sued for removing search functionality from windows XP? I refuse to even acknowledge the 'search' tool they have as functional, they beat it up so bad.
Anyway, I said it before - every time microsoft see a competitor, and it is clear in retrospect, they hold onto their existing ways of doing things, until, like google's hosted software approach coming out (their rumored weboffice... ) they have to revaluate, and slowy realise they are being given a new way of doing business for moremoney ON A PLATE.
Damn they are stupid bastards. Anyway, it is not about how many times should we pay for our software, anything as a service is charged as a service, this is about how much does software cost us.
And right now, I am using open office, and I am starting to not save in the doc format when I send out formatted documents, and people are starting to not say 'what is this'. So looks to me like microsoft are just too slow now to survive. When you look at how they are diversifying, and their current breakdown of profits from sectors, you will see why, and when people jump to XP or to Vista via an OEM upgrade, maybe in this price competative market, the OEM will stick OOo on it and not office, and maybe people will already be learning google office at work because the boss wants to save some dollars on this microsoft office thingy, that only causes about 35 man hours of support calls a day from people asking where their documents are.
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"The desktop has become a lot like teenage sex: a lot of people are talking about it but not many people are doing it," Szulik said.
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Brilliant write up on how-to - see these films
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Some recent zombie movies, like "Shaun of the Dead", adhere faithfully to the Romero zombie conventions and make frequent references to his work. Others depict faster, more intelligent zombies. Films like "28 Days Later" keep the basic structure of a zombie film but do not portray actual zombies. (In "28 Days Later," people are infected with a virus that takes effect in seconds - they don't actually die until they eventually starve.) A few recent movies and games throw all these conventions aside, presenting zombies that move quickly and can think for themselves, much to the chagrin of zombie purists.
If you have not seen Shaun of the Dead, go to great lengths to see it this halloween - I kid you now, if you do not loose bladder control at the simple utterance of the word 'cornetto' then you too may be a zombie.
This film is brilliant! Also 28 days later is cool, but see Shaun of the Dead first! I kid you not! You will not find a more intelligent yet funny film EVAR!1 Not gory or scarey, pure laughs.
Nice to see how calendar events play into these games, and I wonder if news events ever will. Seeding stories based on todays news... maybe a modern day IRL game will use real news as feed for dialogue and quests...
Could be funny, this is prior art, so no patents on "using up sources to seed live gameplay and dialogue" or anything daft.
One thing, what is "Hallow's End", is this WoW only thing? Or is All Hallow's Eve known by this as well? I say because a google of Hallow's End brought up WoW pages.
I can see, without looking, hundreds of comments saying 'don't blame bloggers, OMG not all bloggers are bad', 'OMG this and that'.
You asshats, blame the stupid word 'blog'. Describing someone's actions by using a technology term, or even a vaguely defined methodology for online publishing is daft.
It is like a butcher, a chef and Jack the Ripper all being called 'Stainless Steelers'.
Of course, they all use their knives differently (except perhaps for jack and the butcher) and for different purposes.
So, mods, please, any 'OMG stop blog bashing' and 'How can you paint all bloggers with one brush!!1111' threads, please mod them down heavily, for ignorance, and because these people are probably in the smelly-with-floaty-bits part of the gene pool anyway, and don't listento reason.
This is you chance to show these asshats and the industry, and society, then painting such broad strokes is daft, and like programmers know, words are important. Read an obfuscated program anytime and find out. The word blogger is not appropriate in all cases, and common usage has become 'someone who posts on the web', yet bloggers still see themselves as bloggers...
Now the fact that 'BLOGGERS!1111' has and will be used as words to describe the simple ability for people to manipulate google, delic., technoshitty, slashdot and other high traffic sites to push their agenda - now I am using the broad term in more context - especially since bloggers love to hyperventalink to anything that can get them some socio-political flavour in their blog.
So if you have written a post that shows that you cannot understand the reason why 'bloggers' is written to describe how easy it is for people to defame companies to the end of financial fraud, and the news site shows how lovely journalists (oooh a word that - wait for it, broad term approaching - bloggers hate...) can vilify the bloggers and expose their evil deeds, and heap back the western nations love on the corporate evil empires (or a start-up company trying to make its way) then stop and smell the trendy coffee you know doubt drink and blog about.
Bloggers are to blame, you know the ones I mean. One of my previous posts discusses how such a word, its connotations and misuse will shape US law, and eventually give people who post online information as a 'blog' less rights than those who just post information. Because the world is that crazy.
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Cisco announce that everyone shoudl upgrade their cisco routers and aplpiances to IPv6 routers and appliances.
When quizzed about software updates or firmware flashes Cisco looked bemused and said "hello this is IPV6!!!!!!!"
of course the most interesting thing is... [Out of address space, recipient 255.255.255.256 does not exist]
D'oh!
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They discovered that nerve injuries caused by low-force, highly repetitive work can be blamed on an onslaught of cytokines -- proteins that help start inflammation.
Damn. No more browsing at -1 on slashdot, bye bye the source of the lowest, most evil filth in the world.
Although I do hear piquepaille actually posted two stories that didn't hyperfuckernate his own blog! good ey.:D
Tod.
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Half-witted dopes, (including penny arcade AND too feeble to mention swedish dorks) make POOR CASES against the pithy twatish remarks of the people who seek to make their money out of litigating the fuck out of the games industry, and at the same time restricting the themes we are allowed to be exposed to in the games we purchase.
Example: Fack Humpson (identity protected to keep his fucking name out of press) states that he wants more enforcement for age ratings on games. Rather than AGREE that enforcing them would be good, people from another too feeble to mention podcast quip, in their prepubescent voices, erm aaah uuh well, erm, that erm, yes, werm, no, but SHUT THE FUCK UP you asshats.
Rather than state that Fack Humpson also has a tumorous misconception (and ulterior motive) to censor the violence in games, and make assertions that freedom to simulate violence in games is no different from that of a movie (lest we not forget the fact that it is interactive is important, but so is our right to enjoy it...).
No, the 'voice' of the gaming public are ill-witted, clueless and being manipulated by these people, like bloggers who cry 'blogger rights', only to find that they have, in their acts of always mixing the word blogger with everything that people who gave away secrets were bloggers, not traitors, people who downloaded copyright material were torrent users, not thieves.
The very idiots who try to oppose these movements criminalise the common verbiage that represents them. Our brains work with string programming, and people aren't all that bright.
The fact that a move would be made to stop violent games in the future is purely the fault of those who vocally confused the media in their attempts to stop the people who seek to profit from litigating the asses off twat companies like Take Two, and the people who regulate the industry.
I feel every game should have the ability to remove swear words and blood, and even gratuitous violence. If moves were made to do this, then there would be an outlet for the crazed motivation of hundreds of time wasting people to try and parent everyone's children for them.
This would stop the only current option they see which is 'ban t3h violent gamez!' because they do not know what games are, how they are made, or what is possible, they are stupid. And so are we.
The fact that cartoon are more violent is a telling one, violence isn't bad, a can of soda can open VIOLENTLY. Fireworks are VIOLENCE. Acts and stories of inhumanity are damaging and disturbing.
I recall being quoted from a book a guy was reading, where, when a soldier was trying to rape a woman, he couldn't get it up, so he raped her with his bayonet.
The way the author wrote it was as dry and plain as possible, without dressing, to allow the full horror into the person's head. I still feel anger and sickness when I recall first hearing this read.
In a film, or a game, or a song, the impact may be more sickening or gruesome, but the concept of hate and malice and hurting an innocent person is truly dire.
If bugs or road runner ever were to get really hurt, that would be quite a shock, for all the fakes deaths that send the perpetrator into tears.
pssskt. pesky kids (is the etymology of pesky from a military gu
I love how they then threw the blobs at earth, and let them cook through the atmosphere, and land in a martian like (non life) environment.
In a humans mind, they imagine life being started by a ball of lovely alive things, floating to the surface which is already teeming with an alive ecosystem, nitrogen cycle, water, o2 and co2.
People are so blinkered. Anything from 'FAR FAR AWAY' must be true, for any sufficiently large value of FAR or AWAY (on in some cases 'LONG TIME AGO').
ooooh scarey unimaginable things from space!!! wooooo woooo woooooohohohoowowowowowow fucking hypocritical darwinist bastard monkeys.
Javascript is fantastic - THE IMPLEMENTATION OF JAVASCRIPT on the other hand, on IE, is SHIT.
Dump IE. (boycott 7.0 people are saying)
Also, I think we should dump HTML for SiTeML, a new language we should design ground up to be specifically designed for the new CSS 3.0 - and for AJAX based applications, with a standardized DOM. Design based, with little features making it good for programmers (like a more extensible dom and class structure).
If we make the design 100% complete, and do not allow for inconsistencies, and web designers go for it, and write the imlementation for firefox (to render SiTeML pages) then IE will have to follow, or become obsolete.
There are too many HTML / DOM / JS / CSS hacks. Lets rip it down and start a new ground definition, a new 1.0, a new type of document, so our weak human minds are not always thinking about 'backwards compatibility'.
If you expect anyone with an older browser to HAVE an ftp client installed to access ftp (command line IS a client too) then you can expect someone to have an XHTML compatible browser to view XHTML pages, and fuck them if they don't.
There is nothing saying a browser can't run on 5 year old machines.
SiTeML, the future. Or at least until M$ has one last go at assfucking us all.
regards,
Tod
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You can make all (latest) OS's look pixelly identical with a screenshot.
I hope OpenSolaris gains some ground, I want to play with it. I think I should, since I use solaris on many companies servers all around. It seems to have had some real innovative thought at all kinda of dark and dank levels.
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*sigh* despite firefox (yes you, I am looking at you evil version 1.0.7) b0rking the fuck out of this post (in its cute, 'OMG look, I can just close magically' trick) I write it again... without the preamble...
The title about the torrent guy getting sentenced is totally misleading.
I rewrote the first two lines, because I forgot what I originally wrote
==t3h fucking po3m==
I fucking hate firefox, because of late,
Its one success is making me irate.
Its obvious his crimes were copyright,
Not protocol or application, right.
Well better than nothing. Thanks firefox, you bastard.
*sigh* poont you shortsighted bastards. Why bother? because some peoples only claim to fame is being born with opposable bloody thumbs. And we all have to live with stupid people like that every day.
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PS: yeah, watch the moderators put this in flamebait hell, I am beyond caring.
I am assuming this comment was on the yankeedoodledandy side of the pond, but I don't know if you heard what has happened in France after two (admittedly theiving little asswipes) kids killed *themselves* after running away from the police.
A bit of a kerfuffle.
Even if people don't care about the lives of people they don't know, at least they relish the ammunition against bush and co, and although, if I may make this statement: dumb asshats for letting him dupe you twice, and dumb asshats for being the seat of liberty and freedom with an unelected guy calling the shots (literally) and doing what he pleases.
America, home of the corporate dicatorship - the worst insult: THE WORST INSULT?
These people who are doing this, are not even cautious, or subtle, or intelligent and they are getting away with it.
Amazing. Sickening. Damn, I wish I could do that instead of them.
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I am assuming this comment was on the yankeedoodledandy side of the pond, but I don't know if you heard what has happened in France after two (admittedly theiving little asswipes) kids killed >themselvesTHE WORST INSULT?
These people who are doing this, are not even cautious, or subtle, or intelligent and they are getting away with it.
Amazing. Sickening. Damn, I wish I could do that instead of them.
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You gotta fight..... for your right... to ffaaaaaacebooook!
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Kids nowwadays, why don't they go outside and take good old fashioned mind altering drugs, instead of flashing their midriffs all about the intarwebnet, they could be doing it for real outside!
I guess it was too hard for the proffs to concentrate, and the popes blogroll was getting far too steamy...
pikka
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This is a weapon for temporary disable the suspect. Like mace. Like a flashbang. The previous methodology was called 'POONT' and involved lightly peppering the vehicle and its occupants with small gauge munitions, dare I say 9-11mm rounds. About 500 should do the trick, one of them is bound to miss an occupant and look like a warning shot, or hit the tyres.
/. but no doubt he has some kind of magic CmdrCookie that does this all for him.
You are right, it is not illegal to shoot someone, or force a foot long metal blade into their vital organs, while they are looking at you in the eyes. However, if that blade is rusty, you are in violation of the Geneva convention - where the poor sod might get an infection.
So, dying of an infection versus dying after being punched kicked and stabbed.
No matter how we try to dress war up, it is still never legal. War doesn't make it legal to kill people. People make it legal to kill people, it is our definition, and it is shocking.
I do not know why someone hasn't sued to try and get civilian death rates reported from this war in iraq. It is terrible.
The flamebait post shows just how mad society is. Mad I tell you! The doctors thought I was mad, but they are laughing on the other side of their disfigured faces now hheheh heheh ehehehheaahuaha aa aheeahmea!!
In all seriousness - no wonder CmdrTaco's spelling has improved - all these 'type in the word here' shenanigans on
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What if some hungry and / or amorous rabbits are enjoying the beets near the pipes?
Seismic activity?
Temperature changes?
Planes flying overhead? (sound)
I am not sure how they can remove all this tiny tremors and vibrations and details from their detection equipment. I wish they would publish a 'how it works' that deals with stuff like that. It will be on my mind all day now.
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... it is obviously just bad writing, that takes itself too seriously, and no 'fingerprint' evidence to the contrary can be seen.
:-(
It is a story, as he says, and not a great one. People just liked the rendering of the universe that seemed like a nice universe.
"Jump to light speed!" putt putt putt... not again! great way to save money and max ROI on sets.
Microsoft -> $ -> SCO -> $ -> Linux companies i.e. IBM
;-) :^)
Anything else? No SAMBA it was done by scaring the people into licenses and stuff, I forget, but I do not say they litigated against them, but they tried to stop it.
You should read slashdot sometime
Is this open source if it is running an a machine with an open source bios... and NOT open source if the machine has a closed source BIOS?
OMGzz +doubleplusgood+3fajilion insightful whining article on slashdot.
Open source, is, as parent says, open source.
Respect? I don't respect anyone who whines on slashdot. Or who mods this down as troll/fb/ot. =]
love, peace and singing mice.
Suonds like someone just trying to get exposure.
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In case you find my website [george-harrison.info] a little too hard to find, I have linked my name on slashdot to include the word 'Beatles' which in effect makes this a spam link, designed specifically to place those words in the google page rank for my site.
It does this in the name of slashdot, since it is slashdots own pagerank that will be used to gauge how important my site is for those keywords.
But, like, please make my page come up on google near the top, because of my l33t circa 1995 web design sk1llz.
Thanks!
Guy from slashdot.
Dear cowboyneal
Do some work, tomorrow I want to see the link from name and the actual html split, even though this also affects the google algorithm, less so. Maybe then people won't start submitting stories like:
viagra cialis tamiflu writes "Microsoft have once again...."
etc. Also they are not random letters.
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yet it seems MS is not allowed to add a feature unless they thought of it themselves.
While at the same time using licensing, proprietary code and patents to destroy real innovation by cutting off the base of the work, fund SCO to try and rip apart linux, yet never actually public admit to this.
That is what pisses me off, and continues to piss me off is that no reporter worth his salt has reported this.
Microsoft will litigate the hell out of projects that make linux too useful or easy to migrate within a windows shop. *cough* samba *cough*.
They also bundle things up - so they have control of key functionality. Name one consumer area of computing where microsoft doesn't bundle and destroy, against a competitor?
Even word/frontpage against dreamweaver.
I can only hope someone takes control of GIMP and NVU comes up with the goods so Adobe can go fusk themselves with their photoshop, 'digital negative' and now macromedia bumf.
GIMP needs a release that is gimp, but with less buttons, and less advanced features, and MORE basic features.
And programatic brushes (procedural brushes). OMFG I would even write those if it wasn't written in an ancient programming language. bah.
The GIMP or K's art package, I will check them out again tonight, and see how they fair.
Do you install an automatic line listener to play random audio to them when they stop talking?
Do you tell them you like the sound of their voice, breathe heavily and fap fap fap fap fap?
Heck if it *is* a sexy female voice, say in a husky, tense voice "Tell me about how much I can *ugh* SaaaAve on calls again... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm *breathing*"
You think with tactics like this they may have their *own* internal do not call list?
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Great subtle nudge at grandparent. Said all I said in about 2000 less words.
I have another theory called the widget theory, where aliens land in a Taiwanese (apologies for econo-typing) widget factory and regard them as dead fossils.
They start to charter the evolution between disparate and unrelated 'species' using 'genetic' variables such as number of sides, colours, materials, spigots, gromits and twidly bits.
The idea is, any chaotic sequence can be classified ad infinitum. Any random collection of organisms sharing the basic building blocks of like can be categorized like a periodic table, and made to look like evolution took place.
You take all the elements that we know of... jiggle them around, and suddenly relationships form.
Yet we are pretty sure elements didn't evolve through natural selection... Hang on how did elements come about?
Oh no, grandparent is an evolutionist; he takes great pride in not having to deal with inconsistencies like the building block of existence and reality.
As long as he doesn't have to explain how the rock came about, or how the rock became a fish, or how the fish became a monkey, he can just point at monkeys and humans, and go 'look, gotta be right ain't it, I mean, we taught this one sign language! innit?'.
Welcome to the world of comfortable science. If science makes you uncomfortable, just act like the Catholic Church, or an angst-ridden king, and behead opponents with litigation, or burn them at the stake with the ACLU, civil liberties for everyone [who agrees with us, and is not some crazy Christian type!].
ACLU: Anti-Christian Litigation Union
Welcome to the freedom to express your views and beliefs, and a freedom to hear and read about others.
A great word - lets look at a few things, and make you cower under the table when you realise how little of a foothold you have in reality and science. I pray that you have some expensive and hard earned certificates, diplomas or PhD to hold on to, or to help clean yourself with afterwards.
Lets define what theories we are talking about. The first is Evolution, capital E, that is the theory every 'scientist' on slashdot or otherwise pushes as:
Yet, when asked for this theory, they show you evolution, little e. It depends on the conclusions you draw from this theory. Now that is established, the second theory is 'intelligent design' (which I do not condone - but as an open minded person I have to kneecap you for your ignorance anyway).
I am not going to artificially demarcate either theory based on our limited knowledge, but this exercise in logic should expose you for the charlatan that you are.
Theory 1: You claim this is a falsifiable theory, but on what grounds? Falsifiable means something else is provable that is mutually exclusive. I.e. you can find something that is true that will show this to be false. It may be the same thing. Read some Doyle.
Theory 2: On what grounds do you state this is not falsifiable or testable? Based on our existing knowledge and ability to measure things? You are blinkered, and thus unscientific. Are you yourself clouded by religion?
Macro-evolution is [...] a testable and falsifiable theory.
[...] ID on the other hand is neither testable nor falsifiable
I would love to know explicitly why theory 1 is testable, why theory 1 is falsifiable, why theory 2 is not testable and why theory 2 is not falsifiable.
By what grounds to you measure if macroevolution is testable or falsifiable? You simply state that it is. And why is ID neither testable nor falsifiable? You again, just state this. If you use our current understanding and means as a basis for your response, then you are incorrect. The theory that the world is round would be valid if someone knew how to test it or not.
Based on evidence that we see, both theories exist. Based on the evidence people saw, as ships disappeared in the distance, the theory was valid - and was certainly not testable or falsifiable by the means until someone discovered the means to do this.
Was this when man first went into space? What do we accept as proof? Mathematics, a concept that we are so comfortable with? Our measurements, our own eyes or judgment?
For you to call one un-testable, and not the other, is very closed-minded. It is very likely that Evolution can never be falsified in human terms - if not a fact that it cannot be falsified, or proven, or tested.
I am sure evidence can be interpreted to point that way. If it is true or not, it is highly likely that this is the case. And if you cannot admit that, that is strike two for you.
I am able to say that Evolution may never be falsifiable or testable, even under the pretence that is may be fact. I am also able to state that we may indeed test and prove or falsify it in the future. However, you do not posses the acumen to do the same? For either theory?
You are ignoring a large hole in a theory, you are ignoring the words of the grandparent post, ejecting the idea of micro and macro evolution so you can just open your mouth, say something you are comfortable with, and hope nobody has the time to show you what a whimpering coward of a mind you posses.
You attack another theory by the same grounds by which you ignore the faults in your own theory, one you like to call your own anyway.
You take a leap of faith by stating you believe that macro evolution took place, and, stone me for including the act of abiogenesis into the frame, because evolutionists love to talk long and wide about everything and anything, but they protect the boundaries
Every time a company competes against them, they curl up, whine, throw chairs... and then slowly... slowly they look and say, hey, so what are they doing to compete against us?
oooh I see... hrm... well that ain't so bad, and if we add our own evil touch, we could make even more money from this! why didn't we think of this before? !!!!
Microsoft have had a "don't rock teh b0at" attitude for a while, a few simple techniques of removing existing functionality (search in windows XP) to slel it again in a later version (you know) and doing the same with office products has kept them going.
Should Microsoft get sued for removing search functionality from windows XP? I refuse to even acknowledge the 'search' tool they have as functional, they beat it up so bad.
Anyway, I said it before - every time microsoft see a competitor, and it is clear in retrospect, they hold onto their existing ways of doing things, until, like google's hosted software approach coming out (their rumored weboffice... ) they have to revaluate, and slowy realise they are being given a new way of doing business for moremoney ON A PLATE.
Damn they are stupid bastards. Anyway, it is not about how many times should we pay for our software, anything as a service is charged as a service, this is about how much does software cost us.
And right now, I am using open office, and I am starting to not save in the doc format when I send out formatted documents, and people are starting to not say 'what is this'. So looks to me like microsoft are just too slow now to survive. When you look at how they are diversifying, and their current breakdown of profits from sectors, you will see why, and when people jump to XP or to Vista via an OEM upgrade, maybe in this price competative market, the OEM will stick OOo on it and not office, and maybe people will already be learning google office at work because the boss wants to save some dollars on this microsoft office thingy, that only causes about 35 man hours of support calls a day from people asking where their documents are.
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"The desktop has become a lot like teenage sex: a lot of people are talking about it but not many people are doing it," Szulik said.
o.0
he sounds disappointed.
Some recent zombie movies, like "Shaun of the Dead", adhere faithfully to the Romero zombie conventions and make frequent references to his work. Others depict faster, more intelligent zombies. Films like "28 Days Later" keep the basic structure of a zombie film but do not portray actual zombies. (In "28 Days Later," people are infected with a virus that takes effect in seconds - they don't actually die until they eventually starve.) A few recent movies and games throw all these conventions aside, presenting zombies that move quickly and can think for themselves, much to the chagrin of zombie purists.
If you have not seen Shaun of the Dead, go to great lengths to see it this halloween - I kid you now, if you do not loose bladder control at the simple utterance of the word 'cornetto' then you too may be a zombie.
This film is brilliant! Also 28 days later is cool, but see Shaun of the Dead first! I kid you not! You will not find a more intelligent yet funny film EVAR!1 Not gory or scarey, pure laughs.
Nice to see how calendar events play into these games, and I wonder if news events ever will. Seeding stories based on todays news... maybe a modern day IRL game will use real news as feed for dialogue and quests...
Could be funny, this is prior art, so no patents on "using up sources to seed live gameplay and dialogue" or anything daft.
One thing, what is "Hallow's End", is this WoW only thing? Or is All Hallow's Eve known by this as well? I say because a google of Hallow's End brought up WoW pages.
That is all
I can see, without looking, hundreds of comments saying 'don't blame bloggers, OMG not all bloggers are bad', 'OMG this and that'.
You asshats, blame the stupid word 'blog'. Describing someone's actions by using a technology term, or even a vaguely defined methodology for online publishing is daft.
It is like a butcher, a chef and Jack the Ripper all being called 'Stainless Steelers'.
Of course, they all use their knives differently (except perhaps for jack and the butcher) and for different purposes.
So, mods, please, any 'OMG stop blog bashing' and 'How can you paint all bloggers with one brush!!1111' threads, please mod them down heavily, for ignorance, and because these people are probably in the smelly-with-floaty-bits part of the gene pool anyway, and don't listento reason.
This is you chance to show these asshats and the industry, and society, then painting such broad strokes is daft, and like programmers know, words are important. Read an obfuscated program anytime and find out. The word blogger is not appropriate in all cases, and common usage has become 'someone who posts on the web', yet bloggers still see themselves as bloggers...
Now the fact that 'BLOGGERS!1111' has and will be used as words to describe the simple ability for people to manipulate google, delic., technoshitty, slashdot and other high traffic sites to push their agenda - now I am using the broad term in more context - especially since bloggers love to hyperventalink to anything that can get them some socio-political flavour in their blog.
So if you have written a post that shows that you cannot understand the reason why 'bloggers' is written to describe how easy it is for people to defame companies to the end of financial fraud, and the news site shows how lovely journalists (oooh a word that - wait for it, broad term approaching - bloggers hate...) can vilify the bloggers and expose their evil deeds, and heap back the western nations love on the corporate evil empires (or a start-up company trying to make its way) then stop and smell the trendy coffee you know doubt drink and blog about.
Bloggers are to blame, you know the ones I mean. One of my previous posts discusses how such a word, its connotations and misuse will shape US law, and eventually give people who post online information as a 'blog' less rights than those who just post information. Because the world is that crazy.
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Babelfish translation of the article:
Cisco announce that everyone shoudl upgrade their cisco routers and aplpiances to IPv6 routers and appliances.
When quizzed about software updates or firmware flashes Cisco looked bemused and said "hello this is IPV6!!!!!!!"
of course the most interesting thing is... [Out of address space, recipient 255.255.255.256 does not exist]
D'oh!
They discovered that nerve injuries caused by low-force, highly repetitive work can be blamed on an onslaught of cytokines -- proteins that help start inflammation.
:D
Damn. No more browsing at -1 on slashdot, bye bye the source of the lowest, most evil filth in the world.
Although I do hear piquepaille actually posted two stories that didn't hyperfuckernate his own blog! good ey.
Tod.
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