I think I understand the general concept of a buffer overflow, but how does would the malicious input get into my OpenOffice in the first place? I'm using 1.1.0 and I don't want to upgrade to 1.1.4 just so I can patch it. *sulk*
If you're going to report on breaking Google features, shouldn't you also mention that they came out with an e-mail service? a separate search for Linux-related topics? a way to shop and compare prices?
This article continually conflates the word "local" with local government. I do not think that providing Internet access should be a function of any level of government.
Do they know what they're asking for? Censorship. Stretch your imagination a little: Farmerville, Iowa offers municipal broadband for $10 a month. Most of its people use the Farmerville ISP, and finally the [shudder] for-profit ISPs just give up and move on.
But gradually it comes to light that people aren't just using the Internet to Build Community. It's ruining the morals of the kids. The mayor's son was caught reading Richard Dawkins's homepage. The police chief's daughter was reading atheist propoganda over at the Ayn Rand Institute website. And Jerry--nice, quiet, little Jerry, who had always spent his hours haunting the library--was looking at pictures of NAKED WOMEN! He said that they were Renaissance paintings, but nevertheless, they were naked.
So, we've gotta crack down and do something about that. After all, any responsible ISP has an Acceptable Use policy...
Free one-to-one email for all members of your Group!
Wait...people can send e-mail to each other instead of to a group address? Who'd've thunk it?
Custom, professionally-printed offline materials for your group-- shipped (real mail, not email!) to Organizers for free!
I could make a lot of photocopies for $19 a month.
Optional online tools to make it easy for Organizers to receive money from their members.
If these members are motivated enough to sign up with a Meetup payment system, why wouldn't they just go with PayPal, which they can use for everything else as well?
We expect the number of Meetups will go down at first, but the community will rebound stronger than ever. The Group Fee will weed out less committed groups; the community will be smaller in the near-term, but it will be made up of the best Meetup Groups....
Oh, I get it. If you're smart enough to figure out a more productive use for $19 a month, you're just not "committed" enough. Since when was being stupid with money a sign of moral fiber?
All this means is that mobile users can access Google Local results. Users have to enter their selected location, just like they do for "regular" Google Local. Google's not figuring out the location by pinpointing the mobile user.
If Google did get into targeted ads, I see no reason why they'd abandon their practice of doing so in a tasteful, optional way.
The pathetic collection of "this sucks" "stop the jokes" "oh! the humanity!" commens [sic] will commence once again...
If you don't like it, leave.
Your pronoun reference is unclear. Are you saying readers should leave if they don't like the duplicate joke posts? Because grammatically and logically, you could just as well be saying that readers should leave if they don't like the complaints about the duplicate joke posts.
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Perhaps there should be a new category just for ThinkGeek April Fools products...
This wouldn't be Slashdot without the product-placements masquerading as breaking news, would it? At least they're consistent...
Thanks--couldn't find the ad by myself
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Hm. The banner ad for the USB Fundue was kind of hard to find, located at the top of the page and all.
I don't think the New Scientist article was an April Fool's joke. There were no elements of humor (or should I say "humour," since it's a British publication?), unless you count the attention-getting title and lead sentence:
Free trade may have finished off Neanderthals
Modern humans may have driven Neanderthals to extinction 30,000 years ago because Homo sapiens unlocked the secrets of free trade, say a group of US and Dutch economists....
But the rest of the article is factual. The researchers' thesis is simply that trade and division of labor may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals.
I don't see the attraction either.
I don't either, but I'm female, so...
I was irritated when Amazon decided to force-feed me Paris Hilton's vapid little grin every time I went to the main page. All I want is my O'Reilly fix, but noooooo, I have to get somebody's cleavage shoved in my face before I can buy something. Grr.
There's an address bar up near the top of your browser. If you click in it and type an URL, you can change the website you're looking at. No, I'm not kidding!
Would you F- off with the April Fool's whining already? We Get It! We've figured it out already: you are superior to the rest of us, who are obviously too easily amused.
To be bored with April Fool's Day is to be bored with life.
Now im not saying women cant be programmers -- ive met some damn good ones -- but they are less predisposed to technical work --
What does "predisposed" mean? Before technology, there was no "technological work." Are you saying there was some evolutionary pressure, during the few thousand years that humans have had culture, for males to develop more technological ability than females? If not, where would this predisposition come from?
I also want to point out that "technological work" is a relative term. For example, when typewriters first came out, they were "new technology" and most typists were male. But when typewriters became standard secretarial equipment, typing was "women's work."
You know that if Novell goes down the tubes, some "industry experts" (read: shills writing for those magazines you get swamped with if you ever answer "IT Professional" on a survey) will surely blame Novell's involvement with Linux. A formerly big, profitable company dabbles in open source...and bites the dust. Therefore, open source is unprofitable. QED.
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I think I understand the general concept of a buffer overflow, but how does would the malicious input get into my OpenOffice in the first place? I'm using 1.1.0 and I don't want to upgrade to 1.1.4 just so I can patch it. *sulk*
If you're going to report on breaking Google features, shouldn't you also mention that they came out with an e-mail service? a separate search for Linux-related topics? a way to shop and compare prices?
Do they know what they're asking for? Censorship. Stretch your imagination a little: Farmerville, Iowa offers municipal broadband for $10 a month. Most of its people use the Farmerville ISP, and finally the [shudder] for-profit ISPs just give up and move on.
But gradually it comes to light that people aren't just using the Internet to Build Community. It's ruining the morals of the kids. The mayor's son was caught reading Richard Dawkins's homepage. The police chief's daughter was reading atheist propoganda over at the Ayn Rand Institute website. And Jerry--nice, quiet, little Jerry, who had always spent his hours haunting the library--was looking at pictures of NAKED WOMEN! He said that they were Renaissance paintings, but nevertheless, they were naked.
So, we've gotta crack down and do something about that. After all, any responsible ISP has an Acceptable Use policy...
We're experiencing very high load, so paper generation is taking a long time.
Who would have guessed?
It must have taken them a really long time to type all that.
PayPal: free. Meetup.com: $19/month. Which should I use? Let me do the math... *scratch* *scratch* *puzzle*
Here's some of what's new:
Wait...people can send e-mail to each other instead of to a group address? Who'd've thunk it?
Custom, professionally-printed offline materials for your group-- shipped (real mail, not email!) to Organizers for free!
I could make a lot of photocopies for $19 a month.
Optional online tools to make it easy for Organizers to receive money from their members.
If these members are motivated enough to sign up with a Meetup payment system, why wouldn't they just go with PayPal, which they can use for everything else as well?
We expect the number of Meetups will go down at first, but the community will rebound stronger than ever. The Group Fee will weed out less committed groups; the community will be smaller in the near-term, but it will be made up of the best Meetup Groups. ...
Oh, I get it. If you're smart enough to figure out a more productive use for $19 a month, you're just not "committed" enough. Since when was being stupid with money a sign of moral fiber?
All this means is that mobile users can access Google Local results. Users have to enter their selected location, just like they do for "regular" Google Local. Google's not figuring out the location by pinpointing the mobile user. If Google did get into targeted ads, I see no reason why they'd abandon their practice of doing so in a tasteful, optional way.
But did you make sure to file a patent for an agglutinative method of integrating diversiform electronic accesories?
If you don't like it, leave.
Your pronoun reference is unclear. Are you saying readers should leave if they don't like the duplicate joke posts? Because grammatically and logically, you could just as well be saying that readers should leave if they don't like the complaints about the duplicate joke posts.
This wouldn't be Slashdot without the product-placements masquerading as breaking news, would it? At least they're consistent...
Hm. The banner ad for the USB Fundue was kind of hard to find, located at the top of the page and all.
Free trade may have finished off Neanderthals
Modern humans may have driven Neanderthals to extinction 30,000 years ago because Homo sapiens unlocked the secrets of free trade, say a group of US and Dutch economists. ...
But the rest of the article is factual. The researchers' thesis is simply that trade and division of labor may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals.
Sorry.
I don't see the attraction either. I don't either, but I'm female, so... I was irritated when Amazon decided to force-feed me Paris Hilton's vapid little grin every time I went to the main page. All I want is my O'Reilly fix, but noooooo, I have to get somebody's cleavage shoved in my face before I can buy something. Grr.
If you follow the link, you'll find that the original article is dated March 29th.
There's an address bar up near the top of your browser. If you click in it and type an URL, you can change the website you're looking at. No, I'm not kidding!
Would you F- off with the April Fool's whining already? We Get It! We've figured it out already: you are superior to the rest of us, who are obviously too easily amused.
To be bored with April Fool's Day is to be bored with life.
Now im not saying women cant be programmers -- ive met some damn good ones -- but they are less predisposed to technical work -- What does "predisposed" mean? Before technology, there was no "technological work." Are you saying there was some evolutionary pressure, during the few thousand years that humans have had culture, for males to develop more technological ability than females? If not, where would this predisposition come from? I also want to point out that "technological work" is a relative term. For example, when typewriters first came out, they were "new technology" and most typists were male. But when typewriters became standard secretarial equipment, typing was "women's work."
You know that if Novell goes down the tubes, some "industry experts" (read: shills writing for those magazines you get swamped with if you ever answer "IT Professional" on a survey) will surely blame Novell's involvement with Linux. A formerly big, profitable company dabbles in open source...and bites the dust. Therefore, open source is unprofitable. QED.