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Flight Attendant Quits And Exits Plane Via Emergency Slide 24

You may question his actions, but you can't say that 38-year-old flight attendant Steven Slater doesn't know how to quit in style. After a passenger refused to apologize for hitting him in the head with either a bag or the overhead compartment, Slater got on the the loudspeaker and told those aboard to "go f*** themselves." He the grabbed a couple beers from the drink cart, activated the emergency chute, and slid away into unemployment.
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Tragedy Strikes Sauna World Championships 3

aapold writes "Tragedy has struck the Sauna World Championships in Finland, as Russian competitor Vladimir Ladyzhensky collapsed and died six minutes into the final, and reigning champ Timo Kaukonen was also hospitalized. The organizers said they used the same rules as in previous years, but also announced the event will never be held again. Rick Reilly of ESPN wrote an interesting piece on the Sauna World Championships last year, detailing his experience entering the competition and his encounter with Kaukonen, who described his training regimen of 20 sessions a day in saunas set to 284 (F) and drinking 10 liters of water a day for several days leading up to it."

Comment Re:Am I the only... (Score 1) 602

I hate this argument.

Both sports are called "football" because they are played ON FOOT, as opposed to being played on horseback such as the more patrician sports like polo. Manipulation of the ball with your foot has nothing to do with the name.

Sir, you reasoning is the argumentative equivalent of a fart. Funny, but about as close to shit as it gets without literally being it.

Let's recap. Baseball = football. Basketball = football. Golf = football. Tennis = football. Volleyball = football. Handball = football.

That would would be a very pointless distinction, now wouldn't it. Games played horseback: polo. Games played on foot: just about every other freaking ball game besides some waterpolo and other obscurities.

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Submission + - Facebook bug lets hackers delete friends (cio.com.au)

swandives writes: There's lot of talk about Facebook and privacy at the moment, but a bug in Facebook's website lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission. Steven Abbagnaro, a student from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York reported the flaw, writing proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and deletes all of their friends, one by one. The victim first has to click on a malicious link while logged into Facebook.

Abbagnaro's code exploits the same underlying flaw that was first reported by Alert Logic security analyst, M.J. Keith, who discovered cross-site request forgery bug, where the website doesn't properly check code sent by users' browsers to ensure that they were authorized to make changes on the site.

Comment Re:Non-American Tax Days? (Score 1) 432

You know, it's bad enough in the States, but don't you find it a little creepy that your government knows enough about your business to pre-fill out your tax return?

Mind you, damn convenient.

I'd be worried if your goverement knew that much about my finances, but not half as worried as I'd be if I'd have to refer to this goverment of yours as my goverment.

Comment Re:FUD article (Score 1) 204

If Microsoft started a patent war against Linux, wouldn't Linux-oriented companies, like say IBM, join in on the fun as well? With big companies, the patent situation is more like a cold war with all the cross-licencing going on.

But that's a cold war I just might want to go all judgement-day on us.
Where as a nuclear war would make this globe uninhabitable the fallout from a licence war like-that would be ... interesting?

If that wouldn't rid us of this patent bullshit I don't know what would.

Comment Re:Between the 5th and 17th floors (Score 1) 467

*snip* but I think it's a fairly easy case to make that the world would be better off if it was free of religious belief altogether. The various wars in the middle east, perverted priests, and the entirety of the religious right wouldn't exist.

They (the problems you listed) would still exist. People would just find another excuse to do the atrocities they do instead of religion.

But you're missing one terribly essential point and I think Steven Weinberg (the physicist) caught it well:
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil--that takes religion."

Comment Re:And my 6 years old son takes 1/5th of the gas (Score 1) 940

Your 6 year old might only need half a seat, but that still means he's taking up the whole seat - they can't sell the other half seat to someone else. A fat guy might prefer to buy 1.5 seats, but that isn't an option: he has to buy 2 seats, and that second seat is being taken away from another paying customer.

Then why not seat the kids next to those fat bastards and get a one-to-one ratio for seat usage.

Security

European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken 245

Jack Spine writes "With nearly a billion users dependent on smart banking credit and debit cards, banks have refused liability for losses where an idenification number has been provided. But now, the process behind the majority of European credit and debit card transactions is fundamentally broken, according to researchers from Cambridge University. The researchers have demonstrated a man-in-the-middle attack which fooled a card reader into accepting a number of point-of-sale transactions, even though the cards were not properly authenticated. The researchers used off-the-shelf components (PDF), and a laptop running a Python script, to undermine the two-factor authentication process on European credit and debit cards, which is called Chip and PIN."
Space

Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus 79

Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons."

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