Weren't the othertwo identical posts by this guy clue enough? Or do moderators usually skip to the end of the comment tree and mod up the first thing they see? Hopefully whoever modded this trash up will be killed out of moderation by metamoderation.
It's vastly outnumbered by Firefox, but IE is still one of the two or three main browsers used by Slashdotters. The usual explanation is the sheer amount of people visiting from locked-down work PCs.
They became nonviable the day some guy called Muhammad said "Now go kill all the infedels".
Wrong again, fatty. Islam is an incredibly tolerant religion. Its big problem is a surplus of asshats.
You see, there are entire nations that are teaching their subjects right from childhood that the west is evil and needs to be cleansed in the name of Allah. These people are setting up little cells in your country right now pretty much just biding time. Go ask at your local mosque how long they think it will be until your wife/partner will be wearing a burqa.
Well blow me down! Entire nations you say? Cleansed in the name of Allah you say? Setting up little cells you say? Here is what you can do: You can keep your irrational fear of the muslim world. I hereby reject your little meme. It will not find a host in me.
You want to know who is teaching the subjects right from childhood that the West is evil? Inadequate western soldiers. The ones who can't aim their missiles right, and confuse schools with tanks. The marines who suddenly flip out and kill a whole town because some dude dropped a spoon. The ones who blow up a town's only bridge and try to stop the residents from even crossing the river by boat.
Iran, for example, is now run by a man who claims his role is to quicken the arrival of the muslim messiah, an event which according to the Quaran can only come to pass by means of greatly increased chaos in the world.
Hey, you've got me there. He's clearly trying to throw the world into chaos for his evil religion, and there's nothing I can say to debunk this claim! It's the only logical conclusion, right?
I'm tellin' you, the Y2K computer's got him. We'll face burnin' roads, cars exploding, painkillers transformed into Scud missiles. There's nothing we can do.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
What your friends in your list are doing is filthy profiteering. This Dept of Homeland Security thing is most definitely terrorism. They are threatening force (by a third party) to coerce both society and government for political reasons.
News: Holy Shit! The town molasses has escaped! You have three hours to save yourselves! Dude: Whoa, sounds pretty bad! I'd better... News: Next on Six, that Paris Hilton sex tape in full!
One hour later...Dude: Whoa, that ruled. I need a beer! Dude wastes another hour or so drinking and watching pr0n. Dude forgets about the molasses and goes to bed. Molasses: I am nearing Dude's house. Dude: I am now in bed sleeping, unaware of the impending danger. The molasses eats Dude alive Dude: What the fuck? Oh shit, the molasses! I totally forgot! Molasses: And now there is no escape for you!
They were going to sell them really cheaply to Cuba, along with the deliberately crappy container. The story is that they'd been picking up chatter about a molasses enrichment project being undertaken by Castro's scientists.
Unfortunately they miscalculated and blew their load prematurely.
I used to complain about this too. Then I remembered that Digg and Slashdot exist in the same reality, so there's likely to be some convergence in the content.
As to why the moderation is a shitty judgment call, I will give a hopefully adequate analogy: I do not blame Microsoft for producing half-ass products and profiting handsomely from it; I blame anyone who decides to reward their lack of quality with cold hard cash.
Haha, I thought this was leading up to a bash at me for being a subscriber (it was a giftBTW).
So the moderators thought that that was a Troll... How about I demonstrate just how Underrated I am by actually producing an improved version instead:
The user would normally be required to pay the extortionist money in order to receive the password, but apparently the virus writer made one small, critical error in coding: placing the password - mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw - in the code.
If the distributors simply change the string in the source code and recompile in response, someone will produce a program that extracts the password from the binary.
But rewriting the encryption wouldn't be too hard either, and a lot harder to counter.
That's a very short term source of money. It'd save a lot of work writing software, but after a few BBC stories on spammers deleting files and pretending to offer them back for $whatever, it'd dry up pretty fast.
BTW, the 30-digit password locking the files is mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw.
Very informative, but a txt abbreviation in the article summary brings us one step closer to the editorial quality of Digg. It should have been modified, or even better, cut.
It's not even "by the way" at all. It follows directly from the previous sentence, and is perfectly ontopic. Get your act together.
Yes, but on the other hand, a lot of the gripes mentioned are meaningless rearrangement of menus of the kind Microsoft always goes through. It must be a good way to get a load of extra money from MCSE training or something.
Legislatin morality is one thing, but it should at least have some form of stability. This bill seems to be nothing more than an include() for a dynamically changeable external form of morality. If law were an operating system, the hackers would be pissing themselves out of excitement waiting for all the exploits they could write using this.
And now the eternal question: what the fuck would be wrong with simply enforcing the existing, objective, ubiquitous rating system? You know, like we do here in Britain? It sounds to me like he's deliberately avoiding this because he wants to create a situation in which he can sit back and pick targets at his leisure.
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Hurray for you! Hopefully you got a nice pleasant ejaculation out of what was a veritable celebration of your superiority to me.
Weren't the other two identical posts by this guy clue enough? Or do moderators usually skip to the end of the comment tree and mod up the first thing they see? Hopefully whoever modded this trash up will be killed out of moderation by metamoderation.
It's vastly outnumbered by Firefox, but IE is still one of the two or three main browsers used by Slashdotters. The usual explanation is the sheer amount of people visiting from locked-down work PCs.
You want to know who is teaching the subjects right from childhood that the West is evil? Inadequate western soldiers. The ones who can't aim their missiles right, and confuse schools with tanks. The marines who suddenly flip out and kill a whole town because some dude dropped a spoon. The ones who blow up a town's only bridge and try to stop the residents from even crossing the river by boat.
Hey, you've got me there. He's clearly trying to throw the world into chaos for his evil religion, and there's nothing I can say to debunk this claim! It's the only logical conclusion, right?I'm tellin' you, the Y2K computer's got him. We'll face burnin' roads, cars exploding, painkillers transformed into Scud missiles. There's nothing we can do.
It's no good burying your heads in the sand. Cyberterrorism is VERY real
LOL TRUE!!
News: Holy Shit! The town molasses has escaped! You have three hours to save yourselves!
Dude: Whoa, sounds pretty bad! I'd better...
News: Next on Six, that Paris Hilton sex tape in full! One hour later... Dude: Whoa, that ruled. I need a beer!
Dude wastes another hour or so drinking and watching pr0n.
Dude forgets about the molasses and goes to bed.
Molasses: I am nearing Dude's house.
Dude: I am now in bed sleeping, unaware of the impending danger.
The molasses eats Dude alive
Dude: What the fuck? Oh shit, the molasses! I totally forgot!
Molasses: And now there is no escape for you!
Unfortunately they miscalculated and blew their load prematurely.
I used to complain about this too. Then I remembered that Digg and Slashdot exist in the same reality, so there's likely to be some convergence in the content.
There's a big difference between laughing at people for dying and laughing at disastrous engineering mistakes.
But rewriting the encryption wouldn't be too hard either, and a lot harder to counter.
That's a very short term source of money. It'd save a lot of work writing software, but after a few BBC stories on spammers deleting files and pretending to offer them back for $whatever, it'd dry up pretty fast.
It's not even "by the way" at all. It follows directly from the previous sentence, and is perfectly ontopic. Get your act together.
Whoooooooooooosh
Yes, but on the other hand, a lot of the gripes mentioned are meaningless rearrangement of menus of the kind Microsoft always goes through. It must be a good way to get a load of extra money from MCSE training or something.
Bla bla Apple bla bla
Vista will be the first expensive Microsoft product in history
He hates the Regular/Diet/New/Classic thing
title == body
Menu usability issue
Driver issues
People haven't written enough 'Gadgets' yet
New error reporting system feels very one-way
title == body
A menu has moved
A menu has moved
Bad network menu usability
A menu has moved
Peer to peer networking is still iffy
A menu has moved
title == body
Five words: He doesn't like Secure Desktop
Another 'Proceed' button to click
UI gripes
Hardware requirements are high.
(Welcome to the world of tomorrow!)
And now the eternal question: what the fuck would be wrong with simply enforcing the existing, objective, ubiquitous rating system? You know, like we do here in Britain? It sounds to me like he's deliberately avoiding this because he wants to create a situation in which he can sit back and pick targets at his leisure.
Verily, I should shut the fuck up about law issues.
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eBay is a fucking shithole, and more and more people are falling in every day.