Comment Re:forcing views of the hompage (Score 4, Informative) 272
about:config
set noscript.firstRunRedirection to false
set noscript.firstRunRedirection to false
Comment Re:Splice? (Score 1) 239
Splice comes out June 4th. IMDB
Comment Obligatory XKCD (Score 1) 497
Comment Re:i need an example (Score 1) 497
Comment Re:Allow me to call it (Score 0, Redundant) 819
Windows Annoyance Technologies.
Or, better yet:
The Windows Annoyance Technology
Or, better yet:
The Windows Annoyance Technology
New Assassin's Creed Next Year, Will Have Multiplayer 56
Ubisoft has announced that the next stand-alone Assassin's Creed title will come out next year, and it will be the first in the series to come with an online multiplayer mode. The company also said it will be "shoring up its focus on competitive AAA core titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3" in the coming year, making mention of upcoming releases for the Tom Clancy game series and a new Prince of Persia title.
Comment Re:At least they patched it (Score 1) 214
I imagine 90% of your updates come from noscript. The author essentially just releases updates every few days just so that he can drive up views to his site and try to make money from it.
I guess that's his right, but it's annoying as hell and it's basically just made me stop updating noscript.
about:config, then search for "noscript.firstRunRedirection" and set it to false.
I guess that's his right, but it's annoying as hell and it's basically just made me stop updating noscript.
about:config, then search for "noscript.firstRunRedirection" and set it to false.
Submission + - Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward Hates You (arstechnica.com) 2
Zarrot writes: Modern Warfare 2 was one of the most anticipated titles of the year. I, personally, have been anticipating this game for almost a year months. No longer... It is a slap in the face to PC Gamers what Infinity Ward has done with this title. No dedicated servers, no server admin, cannot kick hackers, no mods, no maps, no community, no customization, no respect... The author is right if we as a gaming community if we do not stand against this sort of behavior, this is the future of PC Gaming. I'm boycotting until they listen to their community of players and address this madness. I encourage everyone else to do the same.
Submission + - The legality of publishing email addresses.
oobayly writes: Like most people I receive a fair amount of chain emails, some humourous, most downright idiotic. No matter how I try educating colleagues, family & friends, I still receive them and am now resigned to the fact that you just can't help some people.
One of my explanations of why forwarding these emails is a bad idea was that they are a perfect harvesting ground for spammers: a very high percentage of the addresses will be live. This, it turned out fell upon deaf ears. If you're stupid enough to believe that Dell will give you a free laptop then you're probably the type of person that believes that a Nigerian general wants to give you $150,000,000 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS!!!!).
As a bit of an experiment, I used a few tools (grep, awk, etc) to parse my Maildir for any emails that appeared to have been forwarded and extracted anything that looked like an email address. As one would imagine there were a good few (thousand) email addresses. Most of these email addresses belong to innocent by-standers. The real culprits are the people who forward them, and it takes only a little more effort to extract only those.
Part of me has decided these people who waste bandwidth, time and have caused me to lose my hair deserve to pay. What better way to do it than to publish their email addresses for spammers to harvest?
Of course, this is unethical, but is it actually illegal? By sending an email urging others to forward the content, are they not actively pushing their details into the public domain?
Answers on postcards please.
One of my explanations of why forwarding these emails is a bad idea was that they are a perfect harvesting ground for spammers: a very high percentage of the addresses will be live. This, it turned out fell upon deaf ears. If you're stupid enough to believe that Dell will give you a free laptop then you're probably the type of person that believes that a Nigerian general wants to give you $150,000,000 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS!!!!).
As a bit of an experiment, I used a few tools (grep, awk, etc) to parse my Maildir for any emails that appeared to have been forwarded and extracted anything that looked like an email address. As one would imagine there were a good few (thousand) email addresses. Most of these email addresses belong to innocent by-standers. The real culprits are the people who forward them, and it takes only a little more effort to extract only those.
Part of me has decided these people who waste bandwidth, time and have caused me to lose my hair deserve to pay. What better way to do it than to publish their email addresses for spammers to harvest?
Of course, this is unethical, but is it actually illegal? By sending an email urging others to forward the content, are they not actively pushing their details into the public domain?
Answers on postcards please.
Comment Re:What after TPB? (Score 4, Informative) 65
I wonder what will happen if The Pirate Bay is closed down or turned into a site for legal torrents. A lot of the other torrent sites relies on the Pirate Bay tracker. What other large, public bittorrent trackers (not just .torrent mirrors) are there?
http://openbittorrent.com/
http://openbittorrent.com/
The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S 238
Harry writes "The unfortunate news about Apple rejecting a Commodore 64 emulator from the iPhone App Store inspired me to compare the C64 to the new iPhone 3G S, in more detail than any rational person is likely to compare them, ever again. If nothing else, it's a snapshot of just how far technology has come since the C64's release in August of 1982."
Comment Re:Total Hijack (Score 1) 263
The only thing that worked for me was to Adblock this image: http://c.fsdn.com/sd/cs_sic_controls_new.png?T_2_5_0_260a
That also blocks some other images like the friend/foe markers, but that is worth it IMHO.
That also blocks some other images like the friend/foe markers, but that is worth it IMHO.
Comment Re:But (Score 1) 366
Not to argue with the point you are trying to make, but I have always wondered exactly just that. Is there any other use for a stereotypical ski mask other than armed robbery?
I know this is antecdotal and your question may have been rhetorical, but I live in Wisconsin and wear a ski mask when I am clearing my driveway and sidewalks with my snowblower. It is too damn cold to be outside (most likely with blowing wind) for 35-40 minutes without a mask.
Just my 2 cents.
I know this is antecdotal and your question may have been rhetorical, but I live in Wisconsin and wear a ski mask when I am clearing my driveway and sidewalks with my snowblower. It is too damn cold to be outside (most likely with blowing wind) for 35-40 minutes without a mask.
Just my 2 cents.
Comment Re:Switching from Kindle (Score 1) 409
I have a Sony PRS-505. I use calibre to manage it. No need to deal with any DRM at all. Calibre will format text and RTF files into the LRF format for the reader. You can also use various online converters to convert from PDF to Word and then use Word/Write to convert to RTF or plain text..
Comment Re:developer point of view (Score 1) 240
* Joomla! for blogging is like using a PC just for playing music.
* Wordpress as a CMS solution is like using an iPOD for playing movies.
p.s. I know it wasn't the best analogy, but still...
You lost me. Could you use an analogy about cars? kthxbye!
