GBC - Slashdot User

Comment: Oblig. Thank You For Smoking reference (Score 1) 248

by GBC on Monday May 17 2010, @06:29AM (#32235366) Attached to: 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive

Nick Naylor: "Gentlemen, practice these words in front of the mirror: Although we are constantly exploring the subject, currently there is no direct evidence that links cellphone usage to brain cancer."

New dating site for Apple fans only-> 0

Submitted by GBC on Wednesday May 05 2010, @08:03AM

GBC writes "A soon-to-be-launched dating site for Apple fans only, called Cupidtino (tagline: "Meet an Apple fanboy or girl"), has just been announced. Quoting their holding page:
Cupidtino is a beautiful new dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple products! Why? Diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in common — personalities, creative professions, a similar sense of style and aesthetics, taste, and of course a love for technology. We believe these are enough reasons for two people to meet and fall in love, and so we created the first Mac-inspired dating site to help you find other Machearts around you. Cupidtino will launch in June 2010 exclusively on Apple platforms — Safari, iPhone and iPad apps. It's time to share the love.

What do you think /. — genuine or parody?"
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Comment: Missed opportunity (Score 2, Funny) 125

by GBC on Wednesday March 24 2010, @04:57AM (#31595174) Attached to: UK Space Agency Launched

Surely they should have called it the Ministry of Space?

Comment: In Microsoft's defence... (Score 1, Funny) 346

by GBC on Wednesday April 01 2009, @08:08PM (#27425871) Attached to: Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout

...think how much they have had to spend on chairs over the years.

Comment: Achievement unlocked? (Score 1) 1582

by GBC on Wednesday April 01 2009, @06:24PM (#27425075) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

Just testing.

Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability 199

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 01 2009, @07:42AM
from the because-they-can dept.

cstrep writes "Eight years ago, Opera introduced Mouse Gestures as a way to speed up your interaction with the browser, and focus on what's important: Content. In 2005, Voice Navigation was introduced, and more recently we've worked with Nintendo to create a browser that takes full advantage of the 'Wiimote' and later, the touchscreen in the DSi. Today Opera introduces Face Gestures, a revolutionary technology designed to make interacting with Opera easier on computers with cameras. Face Gestures lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures. By using an internal technology dubbed 'Face Observation Opera Language,' we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser."

Wikileaks publishes Australia's "secret" b 1

Submitted by GBC on Wednesday March 18 2009, @10:23PM

GBC writes "Wikileaks have done it again. They just published the Australian government's proposed secret blacklist of internet sites. Details of the leak are covered in a Sydney Morning Herald article which notes that,
about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.

In that same article Nick Minchin, the Opposition Communications spokesman, is quoted giving a reasonable perspective on the blacklist:
"The regrettable and unfortunate reality is there will always be explicit and illegal material on the web and — regardless of blacklists, filters and the like — those with the means and know-how will find ways of accessing it. Adult supervision is the most effective way of keeping children safe online and people shouldn't be led into believing by Labor that expanded blacklists or mandatory filters are a substitute for that."

Slashdot recently covered a related story about the Australian government adding several Wikileaks pages to the banned list.

Since I am an Australian, I am not linking directly to the list (which is readily available on the Wikileaks site for those who wish to seek it out) as, according to that same article from the Sydney Morning Herald, "Australians caught distributing the list or accessing child pornography sites on the list could face criminal charges and up to 10 years in prison." So much for free speech downunder!"

SPAM: Societe Generale uncovers massive fraud 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday January 24 2008, @03:06PM

"Irrational" - "No collusion or accomplices"

Read: Intelligence Op.

3 Mobile launches new Skype mobile phone-> 0

Submitted by

jnaghdi

on Monday October 29 2007, @01:40PM

jnaghdi writes "Mobile phone provider 3 has launched a new handset that will allow users to make free calls over the internet via telephony service Skype. Users will also be able to use Skype's instant messaging service, 3 said.But while people using Skype on their computers are able to make cheap global calls to any phone number, this will not be possible via the new 3 handset.Skype has about 246 million registered users worldwide and is one of the firms reshaping the global phone industry."
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Low Slashdot UID account sells for US$3,050-> 0

Submitted by

GBC

on Thursday October 25 2007, @12:06PM

GBC writes "After a bidding war involving 24 bidders and 40 bids, the low Slashdot UID was sold for US$3,050 to "Netelder". In case you missed it, the UID was offered as part of Slashdot's Ten-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF."
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