Comment Re:Eyes wide shut (Score 1) 242
That patent is probably invalid as a standalone video opened by a video viewing program usually auto-plays the video without the user needing to push play.
Comment Re:Plugins are Still the Answer (Score 1) 242
That is what we have codecs for..
Comment Re:I thought DRM was the issue (Score 1) 242
First of all, "Flash" isn't a codec. If you are referring to H.264; in most tests, it is beaten by Theora in bitrate/quality.
Comment Re:View this in Firefox 3.5 for best results: (Score 1) 242
I also forgot to mention, but <video>goatse</video> would just display the text, "goatse".
Comment Re:View this in Firefox 3.5 for best results: (Score 1) 242
<img src="goatse"/>
Oh wait, I forgot, browsers don't have an AI that lets them block images/video/sound based on how offensive they might be to you.
Comment Re:Eyes wide shut (Score 1) 242
If Flash player was open source, then the same thing would be true for it. With openness comes choice.
Comment Re:Eyes wide shut (Score 3, Informative) 242
By default the user needs to initiate playing the video, but there is an optional autoplay attribute which can be used to auto-buffer and auto-play the video.
Comment Input page (Score 5, Informative) 218
The main page's search input area is still unusable for me and if it is for you, try http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ instead. The "i" GET parameter is your search.
For example: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=world+population
Comment Re:How to stop it (Score 1) 210
WTF are you talking about? This is an inline script. It's closer to 1st-party than a relative URL.
I think you are thinking of 3rd party cookies, which are blocked very often.
Comment Re:How to stop it (Score 1) 210
The HTML comment got removed, at "(also don't use as they fuck up E4X:" it was supposed to say:
"(also don't use <--comments--> as they fuck up E4X):"
Comment Re:How to stop it (Score 5, Interesting) 210
Wow, good idea! Let's just introduce two more global variables in some messy code! actually, how about we don't and we use something anonymous like this (also don't use as they fuck up E4X:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (top.location != location) {
top.location = location;
}
</script>
Comment Re:GMail (Score 3, Interesting) 251
It seems you think spam is always all caps. All-caps spam is a trademark of the makers of that lunchmeat: http://www.spam.com/about/internet.aspx
Comment Re:FUCKIN' A (Score 1) 177
Slashdotters really really need to get over the obsession with evolution, there is no such thing. How many fuckin' times do I have to tell you pimply kids that? If it was real, you wouldn't have pimples...
What would the mutation that causes pimples have done that would make you be seceded by through evolution?
Comment Re:Only stupidity is universal. (Score 1) 177
Since when is using man-made antibodies "playing god"? Last I checked, the Flying Spaghetti monster doesn't impose laws on the use of man-made antibodies.
UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia 668
Concerned Wikipedian writes "Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some research by Wikipedians, it appears that the image of the 1970s LP cover art of the Scorpions' 'Virgin Killer' album has been blocked because it was judged to be 'child pornography,' and all other attempts to access Wikimedia foundation sites from these ISPs are being proxied to only a few IP addresses. This is causing many problems for Wikipedia administrators, because much of the UK vandalism now comes from a single IP, which, when blocked, affects potentially hundreds of thousands of anonymous users who intend no harm and are utterly confused as to why they are no longer able to edit. The image was flagged by the the Internet Watch Foundation, which is funded by the EU and the UK government, and has the support of many ISPs and online institutions in the UK. The filter is fairly easy to circumvent simply by viewing the article in some other languages, or by logging in on the secure version of Wikipedia."
