If this is all that you meant, then my remark is unfounded - sorry. I simply take issue with everyone who jump up and shout "but what about China?!" every time Google is mentioned, regardless of context.
Oh Jesus Christ, stop whining. Is the good Google's doing by digitizing vital information somehow invalidated because they choose to do business with China?
How can a user differentiate between an executable file with a pretty icon and a jpeg in OSX (or Linux for that matter)? In Windows there are file extensions so a trojan with an icon will still have to be called something.exe in order to do any damage. How can I tell the difference between a binary file with an icon and a file that doesn't execute any code with the absense of extensions?
Ever since GTalk was released there was talk of the ability of the jabber protocol (which Google Talk is based on) to connect to other networks such as MSN, AOL or Yahoo. How has this progressed? Is it currently possible?
Have you perhaps thought that your intense bitterness and outright misogyny might have more to do with you never touching a girl than 'bikers' or 'all women being whores'?
Either that or Gmail behaves differently with me. I had originally registered firstname.lastname@gmail.com but when I just tried registering firstnamelastname@gmail.com, fir.stnamelastname@gmail.com, and firstnamelast.name@gmail.com, it gave me an 'address already registered' error. Try it out for yourself.
I guess it's also possible that Google has recently corrected the flaw and it was indeed possible to register both firstnamelastname and firstname.lastname at some point. I want to believe though, so for now I'll just suspend my belief in your posts' veracity.
hahahaha my first post got modded to +4
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What I said above is a complete and total lie. Instead of going by what other slashdot posters had posted (lies as well, apparently - who would've guessed?), I actually tried it out and it didn't work. The grandparent was correct. I couldn't register firstnamelastname@gmail.com when firstname.lastname@gmail.com was already registered.
I guess I should actually put a little effort in research before spouting unsubstantiated bullshit. Or I can just take note from the editors of a certain tech-oriented website and continue on my merry, non-reaserching way:)
From what I understand, it's not two seperate accounts (i.e. ab@gmail.com and a.b@gmail.com are only one account and you can't register both, and you get mail that comes to either).
You don't understand:) You can indeed register both. For example if there was a person called firstname.lastname@gmail.com whose emails I'd want to read, I would be able to register firstnamelastname@gmail.com and receive every single email he receives. It's a neat and handy feature, though not for the poor sap whose email is being read. It actually kind of sucks for him.
What you're looking for is adderall. Or any other sort of amphetamine, really - adderall is only preferred because it's legal and thus easier to obtain. Thousands of college students can't be wrong;-)
I live in Denmark, have ~100 contacts on my contact list and most of them are active. About half of them live in Denmark, a quarter in other parts of Europe and a quarter in other parts of the world. In that last quarter I have 2-3 Americans (country, not continent). They are the only one using AIM. Everyone else use MSN exclusively.
"(and I'm not sure that Faraday cages even *work* at these frequencies... the radiation might just punch right through the shield material.)"
That's the correct answer. It won't absorb some 'some radiation' like you previously speculate - for a faradey cage to shield from radiation, its mesh must be quite a lot smaller than the wavelength of whatever it's blocking. It can block microwaves easily, as their wavelengths are ca. 30cm, but gamma rays have wavelengths of ca. 124 pm, which is smaller than the distance of atoms in most solids. You need lots and lots of lead to stop gamma rays.
Small correction: beta ratiation is most commonly composed of electrons, not positrons. There is ß+ radiation composed of positrons, but it's much less common and not as dangerous as positrons would annihilate themselves before they actually do something harmful:)
I'd also think neutrons would be blocked more easily then elec/positrons, as they're bigger.
"It doesn't. It's to prevent John Q. Public from doing anything - they couldn't care less about the random EE inclined hacker who would could patch something together." Which is pretty fucking dumb considering one random EE inclined hacker is enough to leak their precious motion picture. I know it's been said before, but I'll reiterate: this will not even inconvenience me, the pirate, while it will surely hurt paying consumers.
I'm glad I'm not a paying consumer; at least I don't feel bad about being treated as a criminal by default.
Thank you so much - I'm saving this into my slashdot.txt and am posting it any and every time ignoramuses vomit out the giving-money-to-charity-is-selfish-lol line for the umpteenth time.
I doubt the validity of the article you linked. How come a google search for Saskra yields nothing but the article you linked to, as opposed to botanical sites or some such?
Maybe it's because I'm torreting Linux ISOs, but both the picture and the article seem to be displaying at atrocious speeds. Here is a mirror of the picture. I guess you can use Mirrordot or something for the article, but honestly, who reads the article?
As much as I love Opera and it's email/RSS client, it's not quite the same thing as what Yahoo's offering, the difference being that Yahoo's version is web-based and can be accessed from any computer. I personally use Opera's RSS client at home, since it's just so damn awesome, and Google Reader while on an alien PC.
Buy a sony Walkman and it won't play anything but a Sony CD?
Sony's way ahead of you. Buy a sony Walkman "MP3" player and it won't play anything but propriatery ATRAC files. It won't even play MP3s, hence the quotation marks on MP3 above.
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Yeah, I can't believe they missed the #1 killer app!
If this is all that you meant, then my remark is unfounded - sorry. I simply take issue with everyone who jump up and shout "but what about China?!" every time Google is mentioned, regardless of context.
Oh Jesus Christ, stop whining. Is the good Google's doing by digitizing vital information somehow invalidated because they choose to do business with China?
An honest question (I'm pretty ignorant):
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How can a user differentiate between an executable file with a pretty icon and a jpeg in OSX (or Linux for that matter)? In Windows there are file extensions so a trojan with an icon will still have to be called something.exe in order to do any damage. How can I tell the difference between a binary file with an icon and a file that doesn't execute any code with the absense of extensions?
Please don't laugh
"non-US countries"
As opposed to all those other US-countries?
Ever since GTalk was released there was talk of the ability of the jabber protocol (which Google Talk is based on) to connect to other networks such as MSN, AOL or Yahoo. How has this progressed? Is it currently possible?
It is also interesting to note that only 6% of all statistics posted with no substantiation are true.
You forgot to mention the ladder theory in your fit of nerd rage.
Have you perhaps thought that your intense bitterness and outright misogyny might have more to do with you never touching a girl than 'bikers' or 'all women being whores'?
You are a filthy liar, sir.
Either that or Gmail behaves differently with me. I had originally registered firstname.lastname@gmail.com but when I just tried registering firstnamelastname@gmail.com, fir.stnamelastname@gmail.com, and firstnamelast.name@gmail.com, it gave me an 'address already registered' error. Try it out for yourself.
I guess it's also possible that Google has recently corrected the flaw and it was indeed possible to register both firstnamelastname and firstname.lastname at some point. I want to believe though, so for now I'll just suspend my belief in your posts' veracity.
good to see moderators are as lazy as I am
What I said above is a complete and total lie. Instead of going by what other slashdot posters had posted (lies as well, apparently - who would've guessed?), I actually tried it out and it didn't work. The grandparent was correct. I couldn't register firstnamelastname@gmail.com when firstname.lastname@gmail.com was already registered.
:)
I guess I should actually put a little effort in research before spouting unsubstantiated bullshit. Or I can just take note from the editors of a certain tech-oriented website and continue on my merry, non-reaserching way
From what I understand, it's not two seperate accounts (i.e. ab@gmail.com and a.b@gmail.com are only one account and you can't register both, and you get mail that comes to either).
:) You can indeed register both. For example if there was a person called firstname.lastname@gmail.com whose emails I'd want to read, I would be able to register firstnamelastname@gmail.com and receive every single email he receives. It's a neat and handy feature, though not for the poor sap whose email is being read. It actually kind of sucks for him.
You don't understand
What you're looking for is adderall. Or any other sort of amphetamine, really - adderall is only preferred because it's legal and thus easier to obtain. Thousands of college students can't be wrong ;-)
Why is it that only Timothy posts Roland stories and only Scuttlemonkey posts Beatles stories?
You will die alone.
I live in Denmark, have ~100 contacts on my contact list and most of them are active. About half of them live in Denmark, a quarter in other parts of Europe and a quarter in other parts of the world. In that last quarter I have 2-3 Americans (country, not continent). They are the only one using AIM. Everyone else use MSN exclusively.
http://www.google.com/search?q=-40F%20in%20C :)
"(and I'm not sure that Faraday cages even *work* at these frequencies... the radiation might just punch right through the shield material.)"
That's the correct answer. It won't absorb some 'some radiation' like you previously speculate - for a faradey cage to shield from radiation, its mesh must be quite a lot smaller than the wavelength of whatever it's blocking. It can block microwaves easily, as their wavelengths are ca. 30cm, but gamma rays have wavelengths of ca. 124 pm, which is smaller than the distance of atoms in most solids. You need lots and lots of lead to stop gamma rays.
Small correction: beta ratiation is most commonly composed of electrons, not positrons. There is ß+ radiation composed of positrons, but it's much less common and not as dangerous as positrons would annihilate themselves before they actually do something harmful :)
I'd also think neutrons would be blocked more easily then elec/positrons, as they're bigger.
"It doesn't. It's to prevent John Q. Public from doing anything - they couldn't care less about the random EE inclined hacker who would could patch something together."
Which is pretty fucking dumb considering one random EE inclined hacker is enough to leak their precious motion picture. I know it's been said before, but I'll reiterate: this will not even inconvenience me, the pirate, while it will surely hurt paying consumers.
I'm glad I'm not a paying consumer; at least I don't feel bad about being treated as a criminal by default.
Thank you so much - I'm saving this into my slashdot.txt and am posting it any and every time ignoramuses vomit out the giving-money-to-charity-is-selfish-lol line for the umpteenth time.
I doubt the validity of the article you linked. How come a google search for Saskra yields nothing but the article you linked to, as opposed to botanical sites or some such?
Maybe it's because I'm torreting Linux ISOs, but both the picture and the article seem to be displaying at atrocious speeds. Here is a mirror of the picture. I guess you can use Mirrordot or something for the article, but honestly, who reads the article?
As much as I love Opera and it's email/RSS client, it's not quite the same thing as what Yahoo's offering, the difference being that Yahoo's version is web-based and can be accessed from any computer. I personally use Opera's RSS client at home, since it's just so damn awesome, and Google Reader while on an alien PC.
Buy a sony Walkman and it won't play anything but a Sony CD?
Sony's way ahead of you. Buy a sony Walkman "MP3" player and it won't play anything but propriatery ATRAC files. It won't even play MP3s, hence the quotation marks on MP3 above.