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Submission + - The forgotten MACRO language of HTML, XBL (wikipedia.org) 1

tvlinux writes: The web is becoming more than just a media display, there is more interaction and more special things that need to be done. Right now jquery is the preferred method of very dynamic user interface. There is a W3 standard called XBL2.0. It is the macro language of the html. To me it seems like a great idea, Reusable HTML widgets where each one is a separate object contained with in it self. You can define properties, methods, events, each that is self contained.
If the browsers supported XBL2, I can vision a whole ecosystem of new widgets, charts, grids and inputs that people could add to web pages just like any other HTML element. I see less experience developers be able to create fancy websites by just using DOM and not having to learn jquery.
My question is WHY is XBL dead? I think a MACRO language for HTML is a good idea.
     

Submission + - Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Trailrunner7 writes: Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks.

Apparently, someone is building a formidable botnet of compromised WordPress accounts that is likely to be used in a much larger attack, some experts are speculating. Similar to some of the late-stage bank DDoS attacks that used Web servers to generate unprecedented levels of traffic targeting online banking services, this WordPress botnet could be as disruptive.

Attacks against WordPress sites began last week, when some Web hosts and security experts reported brute-force attacks against administrative credentials using a combination of “admin” as a user name, and a list of common passwords. Compromised sites built on WordPress would notice slower back-end operations, log-in difficulties, or downtime.

Submission + - Ignore your dull family, says new Facebook Home ad (cnet.com)

plastick writes: Admit it, your family is just awful. Your Facebook friends are more important and interesting, says a new Facebook ad.

You know those self-centered, self-regarding people who just have to look at their cell phones during dinner? Facebook loves them. Facebook admires them. Facebook wants to promote them.

This thrust toward spiritual progress is the company's latest ad for Facebook Home...

Oh, all families are awful, aren't they? They insist on imposing emotional control upon you. They tell you what to do, what to think, what to believe, and which lover to toss down the chute of despair. And what do you get in return? Food, that's what. Yet Facebook wants you to believe that your Facebook friends are your real family. Yes, those people whom you hardly talk to, hardly remember, or hardly even know.

Submission + - Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria (nature.com)

ananyo writes: Sediment in a deep-sea core may hold radioactive iron spewed by a distant supernova 2.2 million years ago and preserved in the fossilized remains of iron-loving bacteria. If confirmed, the iron traces would be the first biological signature of a specific exploding star.
Scientists have found the isotope iron-60, which does not form on Earth, in a sediment core from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, dating to between about 1.7 million and 3.3 million years ago. The iron-60, which appears in layers dated to around 2.2 million years ago, could be the remains of magnetite chains formed by bacteria on the sea floor as radioactive supernova debris showered on them from the atmosphere, after crossing inter-stellar space at nearly the speed of light.

Comment Re:Does not go too far enough! (Score 1) 461

WARNING: This food was derived from plants whose genomes were MUTATED from the single-cell ancestor of all living things

That would probably get the fundamentalist "Chrisitans"/young Earth creationists, to stop purchasing it. I mean after all the Earth has only been here for about 6000 years and all of the plants and animals were created exactly as they are and always have been. That evolution nonsense is just a lie to persecute them for their strongly held anti-intellectual beliefs.

Comment Re:The harm is in the use (Score 1) 461

have you ever deliberately chosen one product over another because it was fattier

All the time, I always choose 85/15, when it comes to ground beef, because the extra fat, provides extra flavor and I've never had a 'lean' burger that tasted anywhere near approaching good. If you've never chosen steaks, it's always best to choose a steak that has nice streaks of fat running through it, rather than one that is overly lean. All those beautiful white lines of marbling running through that steak are what help make it so god damned juicy and tasty. Unless of course you're one of those people that likes a well done (usually over done) steak with some ketchup.

Comment Re:Ignorance (Score 1) 461

If the day comes that there isn't enough meat to go around I'll just have to start eating people. I refuse to give up meat, already having to abstain from dairy is bad enough. On a side note, cannibalism, would help with the problem of food shortage, seeing as it would serve as a form of population control.

Comment Re:Ignorance (Score 1) 461

Not a small proportion of us /.-ers are ignorant on lots of issues.yet we freely express our uninformed opinions making the whole discussion usually difficult and in some less frequent cases entertaining.

So the difference between Slashdot and politics is that, /. has that last part going for it.

Comment Re:Ignorance (Score 1) 461

people who "obsess" with "gluten-free-ism" do that because they have a very real (Medical) problem

It may of been more that way when it hit the forefront, people suffering from Ciliac's and the like that need to avoid gluten. Now it's just become trendy, like being a vegetarian or vegan, many people striving to be gluten-free, just because there's someone famous saying how gluten is bad for you or how their on a gluten free diet. The increasing number of sheeple is what should really worry those of us that are capable of independent thought, rather than simple regurgitation.

Comment Re:Sugar (Score 1) 461

I think more detailed labeling about the amount of sugar artificially added to foods would be of more immediate value.

Especially the corn syrups. I swear that stuff is evil. When I took a trip to Australia and New Zealand a couple of years ago I was gone for a month, the only thing that changed about my daily amount of activity or diet, was that I didn't have any HFCS, from the time I left LAX, till I got back to the states. I came back 12 pounds lighter than when I left.

Comment Re:You're rudely forgotten my demographic! (Score 1) 461

How do you feel about crops where the seeds are naturally sterile, [wikipedia.org] and there's no known wild form of the plant?

There's a huge difference between something like saffron being sterile and a company like Monsanto, wanting to create seeds for staple crops like corn sterile. Their idea of wanting to produce a sterile seed is that they can then lock farmers into their product, even more so than they do already.

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