Why don't we have some viruses that act more as 'creative grafitti'
We do still have these. They're called freeware or shareware. You'll find them on websites all over the place. Most of the time they come with hidden surprises too!
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Heh, my first comment was a joke. My second comment was an easy fact added simply to question you about the silly subject you gave your post and take a jab at the 3 word exclamation at the end. I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of your comments in this thread; I just think you used a ridiculous fan-boy method to voice your hopes. Basically, I'm just being a smartass. (some would call it trolling but I just call it being me)
Take no personal offense, because I have truly enjoyed many of your observations and comments over the few months I've been wasting time around here. It kind of surprised me to see your name on this post. I didn't comment as AC because I figured you'd take it in stride.
This does bring up an interesting but off topic dilemma - how to filter based on content rather than foes lists or group think. I wish someone would develop a grease monkey script that allowed me eliminate all the MS, Apple, or whoever fan-boy drivel and only show comments with actual informative content. Of course I don't know how they'd do it; that's not my line of work. But then again, I guess I'd be missing out on all this fun stuff. - Cheers
Gee, I can't believe you left out Keyboards, Floppy Drives, Motherboards, CRTs, PSUs, and CPUs!
But seriously, this is a rumor about Apple buying a lot of flash to use in a friggin music player. It's something that has been done by almost everyone for years; and long before Apple. How does that translate to Apple Leads Again, again?
How does access time become even remotely relevant when playing a ~5mb file? Wouldn't transfer speed be more important, especially when loading songs to the player? I thought access times should only be an issue if you're running some app on the player which is constantly reading/writing to the disk. What am I missing?
I'm not sure if I should take your comments literally or just consider them as humor. If it's an attempt at humor, I admit that I'm missing the funny. Perhaps I'm missing it in the same way that you missed this comment: "My original post was mostly tongue-in-cheek humor" which I made in my second post to the same thread. I was actually surprised that my original comment was modded Insightful rather than Funny. Maybe I need to work on my delivery.
Now then, if you are not attempting humor but are serious with your troll comment; may I ask what it was that you took offense to in my original post? Are you a golfer? Because I have a lot of friends who are golfers. They get uptight about my humor too. The bowlers however, they just love the stuff.
Your sig: Promoting critical thinking since 1994. causes me to suspect that I've just been trolled. But since you claim some expertise at critical thinking, maybe you can help me come up with a new sig to better match my hard-earned username. What do you think about the following?
-- WARNING: The preceding comments may contain snippets of sarcasm, innuendo, irony, speculation, or humor. Read at your own risk. Over analyzing may result in wasted time.
Why is this insane? Anyone you call or text-message knows your number and very well may keep it indefinitely. All privacy paranoia aside; maybe Google is working on an interface for simplified text-messaging that links all your contacts from your email, IM, and mobile phone accounts. They are becoming heavy in communications apps, so maybe they want to track usage patterns of the Gmail users, who sign up by mobile phone, to see if there are any significant differences compared to their standard online-only users. Maybe they are using the numbers to track which mobile providers are most popular with their own users. Maybe they are using the numbers to simply keep track of how many accounts the average user opens. There are likely many, many more reasons that we're just not smart enough to think of, but they are.
I doubt very seriously they want your number to sell to telemarketers or track where you eat dinner on Friday night. What I don't doubt is that there is at least one very easy way to prevent them from knowing anything about you.
I think of Beta as just part of the name by now. Sort of like Windows 98.
now for an offtopic observation of your sig: -- BoingBoing.net. It's like reading tommorow's Slashdot today!
Always curious, I took a look. Honestly, I fail to see the connection. Some headlines:
0 Avoid commuter-cooties by bringing your own transit strap 0 American obesity skyrockets, 73% obese or overweight by 2008 0 World-killing disaster photoshopping contest 0 Alleged subway wanker caught on cameraphone, Flickr 0 Beautiful gay merit badge patches for sale 0 Christy Canyon and other XXX autobio writers in Vanity Fair
Oh wait, here it is, hidden all the way at the bottom.
0 Stormtrooper at Star Wars con mistaken for armed robber
It says exactly what I said - there are several types of endoscopes, one of which is the colonoscope.
WTF? Where did you say that? Am I missing something? Maybe in a completely different post than the one I replied to?
I did not know what the difference was so I thoroughly read both pages you linked to, and neither page had any information to clear up the difference. How was anyone supposed to take significant meaning from, 'Sorry, but I think you're wrong' with two links that add absolutely nothing to clear up the first incorrect statement? Where, on either linked page, does it mention anything about the different types of endoscopes or their uses? It's not there. You added absolutely nothing, and simply contributed to more confusion.
I did a little research and linked a pretty good page that actually explains what many different endoscopes are used for. I then added a simple comparison below the link to sum up my findings.
Sorry, but if you're going to correct someone, please do some simple research first before posting the first wiki link that you think agrees with your idea of correct.
This feature is actually pretty nice in that new messages show up in the sidebar without annoying pop-up or audible alerts. You can also read the entire message in a fly-out without opening a browser or changing tabs in an already open browser. It works similar to some of the better RSS aggregators. You can also filter what email does or does not show up in the sidebar. The ability to search my Gmail while offline is something I've wanted for a while.
You are correct. What's annoying me at the moment is that any link I hit inside the GDS sidebar automatically opens in IE, grrr. Even though I can search with GDS inside Firefox, the sidebar links ignore my default browser settings. Maybe it will be fixed before coming out of beta or maybe a plugin can be written to change it.
Just get your favorite porn sites to offer up RSS feeds and you're there.
http://desktop.google.com/features.html Photos: Watch a slideshow of photos from the web and from your computer. You can click on an image to see a larger view. In Options, you can add photos to the slideshow by selecting folders on your computer and RSS/Atom feeds from the web.
Watch out for this one though. Wouldn't want your browsing habits to sneak up on you at an inopportune time. Photos from RSS/Atom feeds on frequently visited web pages are also automatically added to the Photos panel by default.
Who wins in skydiving? That's easy, anyone who walks away from a landing and is able to jump again.
You make a point to specify that recreational skydiving is not sport and I could do the same with almost any other activity. When I skydive, mountain bike, paddle or even shoot pool, I do not keep score. I enjoy those activities as recreation, yet there are countless others who do compete in each. My original post was mostly tongue-in-cheek humor, but there are many forms of competition in skydiving:
http://www.uspa.org/competition/ The USPA Constitution binds USPA "to sanction skydiving competitions, to document officially all national and world skydiving records set by citizens of the U.S., and to select and train the United States Parachute Team for world competition."
http://www.fai.org/ - (covers all forms of air sports. Who knew flying a plane could be a sport?) FAI is the world air sports federation, founded in 1905. It is a non-governmental and non-profit making international organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astronautical activities worldwide.
http://www.fai.org/parachuting/ IPC, the International Parachuting Commission of FAI. FAI's parachuting activities, in particular World Records and International Competitions, are conducted under the direction of the IPC.
http://www.tradoc.army.mil/pao/TNSarchives/Novembe r04/111604.htm The U.S. Army Parachute Team, "Golden Knights," style-and-accuracy teams swept the 2004 National Skydiving Competition in Perris, Calif., last month, winning two team medals and 10 individual medals.
http://www.ground-rush.com/wind.htm Partial global list of recreational wind tunnel locations - for those curious about what skydiving feels like, without the safety risks of jumping out of a plane and landing under parachute. The experience is in fact close to that of freefall but, the restrictive nature of a tunnel takes away the best part of skydiving - almost unrestricted flight. The visual experience of a tunnel sucks in comparison as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Why don't we have some viruses that act more as 'creative grafitti'
We do still have these. They're called freeware or shareware. You'll find them on websites all over the place. Most of the time they come with hidden surprises too!
Slashdot has sections? I thought they just had horrible taste in color schemes and goofy icons.
come on, next you'll be telling me that you're brave in rl and my time spent here is productive or something.
Wouldn't using Atilla as a screen name earn a bit more respect than Coder?
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http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b3atilla_p1
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It has been brought to our attention that you have made personal gains, in the form of mod points, through the use of the word "conflick." We are writing you today to inform you that the word "conflick" is a registered trademark of Prison Porn Productions Company, a subsidiary of Prison Films Inc. Under current US trademark laws, we reserve all rights to the use of the word "conflick" and hereby request that you cease using our trademark in public and in private. Failure to cease infringing on our trademark may lead to civil and/or criminal prosecution with penalties resulting in fines and/or "receiving" roles in one of our films.
We hope that you understand our "position" in this matter and will thus cease infringement immediately. Rest assured that we have individuals standing at attention who are anxious to see this through your end.
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Heh, my first comment was a joke. My second comment was an easy fact added simply to question you about the silly subject you gave your post and take a jab at the 3 word exclamation at the end. I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of your comments in this thread; I just think you used a ridiculous fan-boy method to voice your hopes. Basically, I'm just being a smartass. (some would call it trolling but I just call it being me)
Take no personal offense, because I have truly enjoyed many of your observations and comments over the few months I've been wasting time around here. It kind of surprised me to see your name on this post. I didn't comment as AC because I figured you'd take it in stride.
This does bring up an interesting but off topic dilemma - how to filter based on content rather than foes lists or group think. I wish someone would develop a grease monkey script that allowed me eliminate all the MS, Apple, or whoever fan-boy drivel and only show comments with actual informative content. Of course I don't know how they'd do it; that's not my line of work. But then again, I guess I'd be missing out on all this fun stuff. - Cheers
Gee, I can't believe you left out Keyboards, Floppy Drives, Motherboards, CRTs, PSUs, and CPUs!
But seriously, this is a rumor about Apple buying a lot of flash to use in a friggin music player. It's something that has been done by almost everyone for years; and long before Apple. How does that translate to Apple Leads Again, again?
How does access time become even remotely relevant when playing a ~5mb file? Wouldn't transfer speed be more important, especially when loading songs to the player? I thought access times should only be an issue if you're running some app on the player which is constantly reading/writing to the disk. What am I missing?
No apology necessary, although it is refreshing to receive one on slashdot.
Thanks for replying in a levelheaded manner to my sardonically written retort.
well -- don't keep us in suspense.
who won the fight?
you or the mens room door?
I'm not sure if I should take your comments literally or just consider them as humor. If it's an attempt at humor, I admit that I'm missing the funny. Perhaps I'm missing it in the same way that you missed this comment: "My original post was mostly tongue-in-cheek humor" which I made in my second post to the same thread. I was actually surprised that my original comment was modded Insightful rather than Funny. Maybe I need to work on my delivery.
Now then, if you are not attempting humor but are serious with your troll comment; may I ask what it was that you took offense to in my original post? Are you a golfer? Because I have a lot of friends who are golfers. They get uptight about my humor too. The bowlers however, they just love the stuff.
Your sig: Promoting critical thinking since 1994. causes me to suspect that I've just been trolled. But since you claim some expertise at critical thinking, maybe you can help me come up with a new sig to better match my hard-earned username. What do you think about the following?
--
WARNING: The preceding comments may contain snippets of sarcasm, innuendo, irony, speculation, or humor. Read at your own risk. Over analyzing may result in wasted time.
[Google] wanting my mobile number is insane.
Why is this insane? Anyone you call or text-message knows your number and very well may keep it indefinitely. All privacy paranoia aside; maybe Google is working on an interface for simplified text-messaging that links all your contacts from your email, IM, and mobile phone accounts. They are becoming heavy in communications apps, so maybe they want to track usage patterns of the Gmail users, who sign up by mobile phone, to see if there are any significant differences compared to their standard online-only users. Maybe they are using the numbers to track which mobile providers are most popular with their own users. Maybe they are using the numbers to simply keep track of how many accounts the average user opens. There are likely many, many more reasons that we're just not smart enough to think of, but they are.
I doubt very seriously they want your number to sell to telemarketers or track where you eat dinner on Friday night. What I don't doubt is that there is at least one very easy way to prevent them from knowing anything about you.
I think of Beta as just part of the name by now. Sort of like Windows 98.
now for an offtopic observation of your sig:
--
BoingBoing.net. It's like reading tommorow's Slashdot today!
Always curious, I took a look. Honestly, I fail to see the connection.
Some headlines:
0 Avoid commuter-cooties by bringing your own transit strap
0 American obesity skyrockets, 73% obese or overweight by 2008
0 World-killing disaster photoshopping contest
0 Alleged subway wanker caught on cameraphone, Flickr
0 Beautiful gay merit badge patches for sale
0 Christy Canyon and other XXX autobio writers in Vanity Fair
Oh wait, here it is, hidden all the way at the bottom.
0 Stormtrooper at Star Wars con mistaken for armed robber
um, would that be your right or mine?
I'm sorry, but could you repeat that last part, for clairity?
Perhaps I should sue my schools...
I wood, defiantly.
Yeah, I get it. Continuing this dialog would be foolish, so I'll leave it at that.
It says exactly what I said - there are several types of endoscopes, one of which is the colonoscope.
WTF? Where did you say that? Am I missing something? Maybe in a completely different post than the one I replied to?
I did not know what the difference was so I thoroughly read both pages you linked to, and neither page had any information to clear up the difference. How was anyone supposed to take significant meaning from, 'Sorry, but I think you're wrong' with two links that add absolutely nothing to clear up the first incorrect statement? Where, on either linked page, does it mention anything about the different types of endoscopes or their uses? It's not there. You added absolutely nothing, and simply contributed to more confusion.
I did a little research and linked a pretty good page that actually explains what many different endoscopes are used for. I then added a simple comparison below the link to sum up my findings.
Sorry, but if you're going to correct someone, please do some simple research first before posting the first wiki link that you think agrees with your idea of correct.
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http://www.lighthouseoptics.com/services-endoscop
A colonoscope is simply a specific type of endoscope just like a slr is a specific type of camera.
Q: Is nothing sacred anymore?
A: No
http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/advertisenew.shtml
http://desktop.google.com/features.html - first topic, with a lot more farther down the page.
This feature is actually pretty nice in that new messages show up in the sidebar without annoying pop-up or audible alerts. You can also read the entire message in a fly-out without opening a browser or changing tabs in an already open browser. It works similar to some of the better RSS aggregators. You can also filter what email does or does not show up in the sidebar. The ability to search my Gmail while offline is something I've wanted for a while.
You are correct. What's annoying me at the moment is that any link I hit inside the GDS sidebar automatically opens in IE, grrr. Even though I can search with GDS inside Firefox, the sidebar links ignore my default browser settings. Maybe it will be fixed before coming out of beta or maybe a plugin can be written to change it.
It's not a desktop - it's a desktop search utility with a lot of extra features thrown in. The summary is misleading by calling it a desktop.
Just get your favorite porn sites to offer up RSS feeds and you're there.
http://desktop.google.com/features.html
Photos: Watch a slideshow of photos from the web and from your computer. You can click on an image to see a larger view. In Options, you can add photos to the slideshow by selecting folders on your computer and RSS/Atom feeds from the web.
Watch out for this one though. Wouldn't want your browsing habits to sneak up on you at an inopportune time.
Photos from RSS/Atom feeds on frequently visited web pages are also automatically added to the Photos panel by default.
Who wins in skydiving? That's easy, anyone who walks away from a landing and is able to jump again.
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You make a point to specify that recreational skydiving is not sport and I could do the same with almost any other activity. When I skydive, mountain bike, paddle or even shoot pool, I do not keep score. I enjoy those activities as recreation, yet there are countless others who do compete in each. My original post was mostly tongue-in-cheek humor, but there are many forms of competition in skydiving:
http://www.uspa.org/competition/
The USPA Constitution binds USPA "to sanction skydiving competitions, to document officially all national and world skydiving records set by citizens of the U.S., and to select and train the United States Parachute Team for world competition."
http://www.fai.org/ - (covers all forms of air sports. Who knew flying a plane could be a sport?) FAI is the world air sports federation, founded in 1905. It is a non-governmental and non-profit making international organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astronautical activities worldwide.
http://www.fai.org/parachuting/
IPC, the International Parachuting Commission of FAI. FAI's parachuting activities, in particular World Records and International Competitions, are conducted under the direction of the IPC.
http://www.tradoc.army.mil/pao/TNSarchives/Novemb
The U.S. Army Parachute Team, "Golden Knights," style-and-accuracy teams swept the 2004 National Skydiving Competition in Perris, Calif., last month, winning two team medals and 10 individual medals.
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/safety/detail_pag
Formation Skydiving has two different areas: recreational skydiving, also known as fun jumping, and the competitive arena.
http://www.skyleague.com/pages/images/nslTV/
Videos of formation skydiving competitions.
http://www.ground-rush.com/wind.htm
Partial global list of recreational wind tunnel locations - for those curious about what skydiving feels like, without the safety risks of jumping out of a plane and landing under parachute. The experience is in fact close to that of freefall but, the restrictive nature of a tunnel takes away the best part of skydiving - almost unrestricted flight. The visual experience of a tunnel sucks in comparison as well.