ablaze - Slashdot User

Comment Re:They force you to lease software (Score 2, Informative) 1016

by ablaze on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @11:32AM (#28941813) Attached to: California Student Arrested For Console Hacking

Everyone is allowed to remove the catalytic converter and muffler from his car. The car is not allowed to be used after that though. The same goes for removing seat belts. Rolling back an odometer is forging, a completely different topic. I cannot understand why changing some kind of hardware you own, or changing hardware of other people can be illegal. The use of unlicensed games on a modified device could be, but not the modification itself. In that way, your remark was very much to the point, although to be read without sarcasm.

Submission + - Common charger for mobile phones coming in the EU (europa.eu)

Submitted by

buchner.johannes

on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:09AM

buchner.johannes writes: "The EU Commission and companies agreed on common charger for mobile phones:

Incompatibility of chargers for mobile phones is a major inconvenience for users and also leads to unnecessary waste. Therefore, the Commission has requested industry to come forward with a voluntary commitment to solve this problem so as to avoid legislation. As a result major producers of mobile phones have agreed to harmonise chargers in the EU.
Discussed before here and here. The text continues:
Industry commits to provide chargers compatibility on the basis of the Micro-USB connector. Once the commitment becomes effective, it will be possible to charge data-enabled mobile phones from any charger compatible with the common specifications.
"

Comment Re:Mac version (Score 1) 437

by ablaze on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @10:20AM (#28347277) Attached to: Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality

Unfortunately, it still looks completely out of place.

Comment 10.0 still beta and Unite is alpha (Score 4, Informative) 437

by ablaze on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @09:59AM (#28347069) Attached to: Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality

Looks great, except that 10.0 isn't released yet, and Opera Unite is a "labs build", aka alpha release.

Submission + - Top 5 firefox plugins (techarraz.com)

Submitted by

chinmoykanjilal

on Sunday June 14, 2009 @04:00AM

chinmoykanjilal writes: "For those interested in heavy SEO, here are 5 SEO plugins for your firefox browser which will help you to make a complete analysis of the site you are visiting. This way, you can get an idea of the keywords, the competetion from the site and the traffic generating factors for the site and the reason for the popularity of the site in it's niche. 1.Alexa With only one daily updated ranking service available, we cannot really ignore it. So, alexa sparky is the first plugin as well a rank increasing tool as it acts as the Alexa toolbar as well. 2.SEO QUAKE SEO Quake is like the one stop spot for all the rank-wise analysis you need. It shows ranks from GooglePR, Alexa, SEMRush, Compete besides other data like the backlinks from google blog search, yahoo directories, yahoo siteexplorer, SEMRush traffic value and price along with keyword density and much more. 3.Rankquest Rankquest plugin is integrated into your firefox as a toolbar once you install it. This toolbar offers a keyword tracker, html validator, link checker, text ratio, keyword density comparision, meta tag analyser, traffic analyser and index status in major search engines including social bookmark. 4.Quirk searchstatus Shows live ranks from GooglePR, Alexa, Compete and MozRank beside your menubar. Has an option to highlight nofollow links and keywords, display a detailed link report, sitemap data, domain data. Is fast and opens a new window as a popup. Very effective for a quick scan. 5.Foxy SEO Foxy seo tools offers detailed information from major search engines as drop-down lists along with data from social bookmarks, rank analysis sites, domin tools and page text analysis and link checking. It also has options for various client sided script validations. With all these 5 tools integrated into your browser, you will never need to open another website to analyse your domain. It is just another day that firefox makes the internet easy to use."

Submission + - Swine Flu Vaccine now Available (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

ravjen

on Sunday June 14, 2009 @03:31AM

ravjen writes: "Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG said that they successfully produced a swine flu vaccine weeks ahead of their expectations. The vaccine was made in cells, rather than grown in eggs as is usually the case with vaccines."

Submission + - Why Microsoft is innocent with Internet Explorer (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by

Crazzaper

on Saturday June 13, 2009 @08:52PM

Crazzaper writes: "With the EU breathing down Microsoft's back in regards to including Internet Explorer with Windows 7, Tom's Hardware took an interesting point of view on the subject and says that Microsoft is the victim. The article made draws up some interesting points about users who install their OS find that there's no browser. What's also interesting is that comments are comparing the EU's move to McDonald's selling KFC or Coke bundling one can of Pepsi with every six-pack of Coke. The article argues that the EU's restriction on Windows will ultimately be an inconvenience for the user."

Submission + - Laptops linked to Male Infertility 1

Submitted by OlRickDawson on Saturday June 13, 2009 @05:29PM

OlRickDawson writes: According to Science Daily, "the heat generated from laptops can impact sperm production and development making it difficult to conceive down the road." This could be a problem for extensive computer users, such as slashdot users. Yet another problem for the geek lifestyle.

Submission + - Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript (making-the-web.com)

Submitted by

Ergasiophobia

on Saturday June 13, 2009 @04:27PM

Ergasiophobia writes: "I'm just going to quote the page itself here, as it gives a pretty good description.
It actually works pretty simply — it is simpler than the Javascript implementation. All it does is load a page (in a hidden Iframe) which contains lots of links. If a link is visited, a background (which isn't really a background) is loaded as defined in the CSS. The "background" image will log the information, and then store it (and, in this case, it is displayed to you).

http://www.making-the-web.com/misc/sites-you-visit/nojs/ Is a demonstration of a method to find out the browsing history of a visitor to a website, no javascript required. It seems the only drawbacks to this method are the increased load on your browser, and that it requires a list of websites to check against."

Submission + - 4Chan Attacks YouTube, Uploads Kids Clips w/ Porn (neosmart.net) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13, 2009 @08:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous members of the internet board 4Chan have organized an attack on YouTube, uploading a number of children's clips and cartoons that switch mid-movie to videos depicting adults engaged in various sexual acts. This is very reminiscent of their attack last year on an internet forum for epileptics, which triggered a number of photosensitive seizures by uploading fast-moving and colorful images to the forum.

Submission + - A Twitter Client for the Commodore 64 (vandenbrande.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13, 2009 @03:04AM

An anonymous reader writes: Johan Van den Brande have developed a Twitter client for the Commodore 64, allowing 140 character messages to be posted directly from this TV-connected 1982 home computer. This youtube video shows how the Twitter client is — slowly! — loaded from a 5.25" floppy disk, how the latest Twitter messages are downloaded and shown on the TV screen, and how this tweet is posted. All that is needed is a C64, a TV, and a C64 Ethernet card. The Twitter client is implemented with the Contiki operating system, which otherwise is used for connecting tiny embedded systems to the Internet.

Submission + - Download IE8 or Microsoft Will Let Children Starve 1

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday June 13, 2009 @12:12AM

theodp writes: "Remember National Lampoon's famous If-You-Don't-Buy-This-Magazine-We'll-Shoot-This-Dog cover? As it kicked off its new 'Browser for the Better' campaign, Microsoft took a page from the Lampoon's playbook, announcing it will provide 8 meals to hungry children and adults for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8. CNET reports that Microsoft will donate $1 million to a food bank if 869,565 people in the U.S. use a special website to download IE8 by Aug. 8, 2009 (8-8, get it?). Microsoft adds that all meals must be claimed by June 30, 2010. How can something so right feel so wrong?"

Submission + - Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central

Submitted by avajcovec on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:20PM

avajcovec writes: Huzzahs are in order! Collider.com reports that Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes of Futurama, stating "Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that "Futurama" production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward."

After being canceled by Fox in 2003, Futurama was revived in the form of four direct-to-DVD movies, though many (myself included) would be happy to see the show return to it's original half-hour format.

Submission + - SPAM: Pixar's next three films to be sequels?

Submitted by

brumgrunt

on Monday June 08, 2009 @11:41AM

brumgrunt writes: "Should we be worried? As Pixar proves itself once more to be home to some of the most original and daring blockbusters on the planet with Up, does the news that its next three films are likely to be sequels — with the confirmation of Monsters, Inc 2 — give cause for concern? Den Of Geek wonders if commercial pressures are catching up with one of the finest movie companies on the planet... [spam URL stripped]"
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Submission + - Poll: Favorite non-electric calculator

Submitted by davidwr on Monday June 08, 2009 @11:32AM

davidwr writes: Poll: Favorite non-electric calculator

Abacus
Antikythera mechanism
Astrolabe
Babbage's Analytical engine
Fingers and toes
Pascal's calculator
Slide rule
CowboyNeal's bones

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