Ammishdave - Slashdot User

Submission + - AT&T Censors 4chan server 13

Submitted by on Sunday July 26, 2009 @06:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/94pf2/att_is_now_blocking_all_access_to_img4chanorg/ Details how img.4chan.org (home of the notorious /b/ — "Random" image board) is being actively blocked by AT&T. According to the scant details available on 4chan and Reddit there are reports that img.4chan.org has become inaccessible from California to Texas and some reports claim as far east as Connecticut. Supposedly this is to stop a ring of pedophiles, but as one Reddit poster said it best "First the came for the pedophiles and I was not a pedophile..."
Disturbing news indeed.

Submission + - M$ Confirms Greedy Windows 7 Home Plans (cnet.com)

Submitted by

twitter

on Saturday April 18, 2009 @12:39PM

twitter writes: "Even as M$ is still paying the price for their Vista Capable and versioning mistakes, Dave Rosenberg thinks the company is about to make a similar mistake with Windows 7. Business Week, always the M$ booster, describes the revenue plan as:
If a consumer on a cheaper PC running the "Standard" version tries to use a high-definition monitor or run more than three software programs at once, he'll discover that neither is possible. Then he'll be prompted to upgrade to the pricier "Home Premium" or "Ultimate" version. [using a credit card and 25 character code]. ... pricing hasn't been determined, but upgrading "will cost less than a night out for four at a pizza restaurant.

I get the idea, because it's a play straight from the early 90s. They get an OEM tax and then hit the customer for software that is less annoying. OEMs that don't do as they are told get taxed harder and M$ pretends they are price competitive with Free Software. Right. Who wants to feed their computer a credit card for basics like the OS and an Office suite when they can have Ubuntu on a netbook that costs less than $400? It did not work for Vista and has even less chance of working now. Corporate users should get their GNU/Linux migration plans in order before M$ collapses."

Comment Re:You know the drill... (Score 0, Offtopic) 346

by Ammishdave on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @01:02AM (#20922569) Attached to: Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released

Hey! You butchered my second-most-loved meme, you insensitive clod!

Don't complain about meme mutations, that's how new ones are created.

Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words 239

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @05:20AM from the don't-you-think-she-looks-tired dept.

Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.

Submission + - The physics of beer bubbles

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Sunday August 05, 2007 @12:29PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Yesterday, I told you about virtual beer. Today, let's follow two North America researchers who are studying the physics of real beer bubbles. 'Singly scattered waves form the basis of many imaging techniques such as radar or seismic exploration.' But pouring beer in a mug involves multiply scattered acoustic waves. They are more complex to study, but they can be used to look at various phenomena, such as predicting volcanic eruptions or understanding the movement of particles in fluids like beer. They also could be used to monitor the structural health of bridges and buildings or the stability of food products over time. Read more for additional references and a photo showing how the researchers monitor beer bubbles."

Submission + - Hackers Extract Main Key to iPhone Unlocking (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05, 2007 @07:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: After reverse-engineering Nucleus, the iPhone's radio/multimedia chip RTOS, the iPhone Dev Team has achieved the next big milestone to free the iPhone from the AT&T network: they have extracted the full content of the S-Gold2 chip's NOR memory. Bluntly put, these are the plans for the damn Death Star and "is the main key to achieve true unlocking." They are also calling for donations to help them keep their efforts.

Submission + - Electronic House Picks the Year's Hottest Homes

Submitted by

cookiehead

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @11:22PM

cookiehead writes: "Electronic House has picked the year's best homes, theaters, outdoor spaces and other areas that would make most geeks drool... This section has more cool spaces you will ever find in one spot!"

Submission + - Users Overtake Digg

Submitted by

econoar

on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @11:13PM

econoar writes: "Well, digg pissed off their users, and the users have just fought back. I've never really seen anything like this on user run websites, but chaos is taking place over on Digg. As I have mentioned before, Digg is my favorite website out there, but after they banned me earlier today I got a little pissed. I submitted a story about a T-Shirt with the now famous HD-DVD hex key on it, and I was banned for "violating the terms of use". Stories were getting deleted and user accounts were being banned all because of a stupid HD-DVD copyright Hex code that can be used to unlock HD-DVD. Digg claimed that they could be sued and what not for it so they decided to censor all of the stories that had to deal with the key. The whole thing is just bull, you can't copyright a sequence of numbers and letters. People come to digg for the sole reason of not having to deal with censorship. The users have become pissed and now every story on the front page is about the HEX key. I'm not going to post it here, but you can go see for yourself. Oh, and not to mention that HD-DVD is a main sponsor on Digg's podcast, Diggnation, of which I am a fan of. Digg really screwed the pooch on this one. Don't fuck with your users. Submissions are now shut down on digg also."

Submission + - Cheating is widespread among graduate students

Submitted by sas-dot on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:39PM

sas-dot writes: Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school's history. Nine of the students face expulsion, according to the ruling, which was distributed within the business school on Friday. Fifteen students were suspended for a year and given a failing grade in the course; nine were given a failing grade in the course, and one got a failing grade on the exam. Four students accused of cheating were exonerated. National surveys have suggested that cheating is widespread among graduate students. In a survey released last September by a Rutgers University professor, 56 percent of business graduate students admitted having cheated, compared with 54 percent in engineering, 48 percent in education and 45 percent in law school. More than 5,300 students at 54 universities were surveyed from 2002 to 2004.

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