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Comment Would you provide Facebook with 'Government issued (Score 1) 259

Hi,

Thanks for providing this information. At this time, we cannot verify the ownership of the account. [Despite that it uses a Uni email and a credit card for validation, despite my whole family tree being linked, despite that I changed nothing since it was set up?] Please reply to this email with a digital image of a government-issued ID (e.g., driver's license, passport). If possible, save the file in JPEG format. Make sure the following information is clear:

- Full name
- Date of birth
- Photo

You may black out any personal information that is not needed to verify your identity (e.g., social security number). Rest assured that we will permanently delete your ID from our servers once we have used it to verify the authenticity of your account. Note that we will not be able to process your request unless you send in proper identification. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks,

Liam
User Operations
Facebook

Would you provide Facebook with 'Government issued photo ID?

I'd post more information but I hit the junk mail filter. I responded to this by providing Facebook with 50 names of clearly fake accounts. All of those were deleted. I believe the reason why I was banned was for making positive comments in support of Wikileaks on the Amazon Facebook page but I can't really say as despite 30 emails requests this is the only response I ever received. Leading up to the my name you 'copied' and a fake profile created the owner of which was an Israeli who travelled around Facebook pages supported by Arabs abusing them in my name. Despite at least 20 people reporting the fake it too Facebook 3 months to close this person's account. Indeed my account was close and the fake remained active for a further 2 weeks.

The was the 2nd account that was destroyed! Both account had in excess of 200 friends. The reason was purely political. You can't be an educated and informed person and be active is supporting young people in Palestine period! Everyone who attempts to do this looses their account. And you most certainly cannot do what I did and track user names of Israeli supporters who are setting up Facebook pages such as "Australians AGAINST having an Islamic state in Australia.." or using the Australian Prime Minister's page as a place to throw mud on the Muslim community while pretending to be Australians. And it is very easy to pick who people are even when they change user names by reviewing the linguists of how they write. They are given away by their mistakes.

If there is a class action please tell me as I know at least 20 others who have been affected and are ready to sign up!

Comment Is that the best they can manage (Score 1) 463

Shameful... the RIAA has achieved almost nothing so why would anyone chooses a scumbag from that group unless they wanted to achieve almost nothing as well. Surely this position should have gone to someone with a high level of achievement in human rights. What a complete sell out to industry and a loss of opportunity for people.

Comment I need some new porn (Score 1) 1

I can see it now, "the International Space Station presents 'Masturbation in Space', 'My Anti-gravity Balls', 'My Russian Best Friend' and '69 Positions you can try on Earth'". Such movies could finance the space program for the next century.
Mars

Submission + - Russians close to "reaching Mars" (myway.com)

Dthief writes:

The all-male crew of three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian has been inside windowless capsules at a Moscow research center since June. Their mission aims to help real space crews in the future cope with the confinement and stress of interplanetary travel. The six men are due to "land" on Mars on Feb. 12 and spend two days researching the planet. They then begin the months-long return flight to Earth, expected to be the most challenging part of the mission. In an effort to reproduce the conditions of space travel, with exception of weightlessness, the crew has living quarters the size of a bus connected with several other modules for experiments and exercise. A separate built-in imitator of the Red Planet's surface is attached for the mock landing.

Have they learned anything from this?

NASA

Submission + - NASA and sex in space (helium.com) 1

Terrence Aym writes: The USA's prestigious space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, loves to talk about nuts and bolts, engineering, space exploration and the life humans may discover "out there." The space agency is even willing to discuss shuttle toilets and the hurdles that had to be overcome of dealing with human waste in space. Heck, that's all rocket science. But ask any of the NASA hierarchy about one of the most human of all things—sexuality in space—and, red-faced, they will quickly change the topic.

Comment Re:heh (Score 1) 754

"a glimpse of the future - when the only way to get "apps" on any computer have to come from the company store."

Or the crack.app.stuff.u corp. No way will this work for the majority of users, if MS tried it we would all swap to Linux in a flash.

Comment Harvey hates the poor... (Score 1) 203

http://www.homelessnessinfo.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=703%3Ain-the-news-charity-for-the-homeless-a-waste-says-gerry-harvey&catid=146%3Ahomelessness-news&Itemid=43

'You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community. It might be a callous way of putting it but what are they doing? You are helping a whole heap of no-hopers to survive for no good reason. They are just a drag on the whole community.'

The community attitude is 'Gerry Harvey can go to hell'!

Comment Re:Just damn! (Score 1) 233

No but it was genitally challenged with butt tattoo that said 'lick here'. The plan was for this to cause the 2.0 version to talk.
"I'm making you store manager!"
"Is that you Bill?"
"I'm an internet slut."
"I'll open the source."
"Get me a brown eye pad."
"I won't leave you not like the others."
"Oh dear I think eye pood."

Comment Check Kraken and 'darkroom' (Score 1) 385

http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org

As is often the case benchmarks don't tell the whole story.

If you run Kracken and compare the results with Google (I'm using FF4 b9pre Minefield)

Now look specifically at the score for digital darkroom (image manipulation)

darkroom: 6.07x as fast Chrome - 1705.3ms +/- 1.6% Firefox - 281.1ms +/- 0.7% significant

Now click on the hyper link and check the actual test and try image rotation. Behold Chrome fails to remove the original image and rotates the new image over the top of the original. So not only is FF 6X faster it also works.

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