KnuthKonrad - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:I might throw in a few bucks. (Score 1) 52

by KnuthKonrad on Thursday January 01 2009, @08:57AM (#26290221) Attached to: CCP Considering Mobile Apps For <em>EVE Online</em>

You are aware of the fact that you can switch to another (=longer) skill whenever you want without losing any skill points of the current skill?

It's common practice to change to a longer skill right before going offline. If you log in again, switch back to the shorter skill you were training before.

Comment: Re:One word... (Score 1) 327

by KnuthKonrad on Tuesday December 11 2007, @09:11AM (#21654335) Attached to: If There Was More Firefly, How Would You Want It?

Yeah, I've seen the interviews with Joss where he explains that he wanted to break free from the classic mold of "heroes don't die randomly", but that's just stupid. The reason heroes don't die at random like that is because being nigh-unkillable is part of the basic definition of a fictional hero.

While I agree to a certain extend, one of the best (mini) TV series I know, Cracker takes a lot of its excitement out of the fact that no one but Fitz is "safe". The deaths of other main characters contribute greatly to the overall story arc and really makes it outstanding.

School Massacre planned and posted on YouTube-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2007, @11:29AM

An anonymous reader writes "A Finnish upper secondary school student posted his plans for executing a massacre in Jokela today in advance on the Internet, including a video on YouTube (the video is now removed, however). According to the Finnish news paper Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish), he posted a 21-file package on the Internet including a manifest stating (freely translated) "I cannot say I am part of the same race as this lousy, arrogant and selfish human race. No! I have developed a step ahead." The newspaper also reports the shooting was inspired by the shootings in Columbine. The number of victims is not yet clear, but according to rumours one has died."
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FBI data-mines grocery stores. Did Visa/MC help?-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2007, @10:50AM

An anonymous reader writes "Recent media reports indicate that in 2005-06, the FBI went trawling through grocery store records in order to track down Iranian terror cells. They hoped to be able to locate Iranians through the purchase of specific food items. The problem with this, of course, is that most Iranians buy their middle eastern food at small ethnic markets, and not the big supermarket chains — for the simple reason that muslims are required to eat halal meat, which is not sold in most places. The majority of mom and pop ethnic markets do not have the detailed computer purchase histories that Safeway or Whole Foods have. Thus, what is more likely is that the FBI simply put together a list of everyone who had purchased anything at a middle eastern food market. As this "CNET article discusses, all signs point to the credit card companies (Visa, Mastercard, Amex) providing this data, and not the individual stores. This could be the tip of a (potentially illegal) data-mining iceberg. http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9812473-46.html"
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School shooting at .fi after YouTube videos 0

Submitted by on Wednesday November 07 2007, @10:44AM

An anonymous reader writes "Today a school shooting took place in Finnish school of Jokela, Tuusula. My big condolences to all families and friends of its victims. :(

A student with obvious mental problems took lives of seven people (status at 15:51 +2UTC, one critical with head wound in hospital) with .22 caliber pistol. His is now in police custody. According to his now closed youtube account his previous account got removed: YouTube suspended my previous account but I am back now :) My new account name is German and means "Stormspirit" in English. — reasons that it was full of similar videos showing that he is planning this massacre. People at Youtube and its users surely think that they should have done more than close his account. The question is, how many others are out there, and will we learn something about this? How this will change our access to online services like youtube and goverment reactions to such cases in the future? Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen already stated that it's extremely difficult to prepare to such incidents but I don't fully agree with him as there were clear evident in youtube days before and lot of people saw it.

A really sad story indeed. :("

Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy Giuliani-> 0

Submitted by

Mike Kuykendall

on Wednesday November 07 2007, @10:04AM

Mike Kuykendall writes "The religious right are truly hypocrites; the latest example is everyone's favorite zealot Pat Robertson endorsing serial husband and cross-dresser Rudy Giuliani."
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CCP Announces EVE Online Linux & Macintosh Cli-> 1

Submitted by

OS24Ever

on Saturday November 03 2007, @05:46PM

OS24Ever writes "As announced earlier in this forum thread, Revelations 2.3 will be deployed on Tuesday, 6 November. This patch will contain a number of fixes which can all be viewed here, but most importantly it contains formal support for Mac OS X and Linux! If you would like to have a sneak preview of what it is going to be like playing on the supported OS of your choice. Beta clients are available to download now and to connect to the test 'Multiplicity' Server. Users with a valid account on October 2nd, 2007 (last date of data copy) can join up now."
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Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? 2

Submitted by

TheWorkingStiff

on Saturday November 03 2007, @03:12PM

TheWorkingStiff writes "I registered a descriptive domain name like "thesimpledog.com" and started a blog on it. About a month later I get a threatening letter from a link farmer who owns "simpledog.com" The owner of simpledog.com is claiming that he owns the trademark to the words simpledog even though he has no real business or rights by that name other than a static page with some text and Adsense slapped on it. There is no product, service or brand whatsoever

Does simply registering a two or three word domain give you instant trademark rights to those words even though you've never done anything with them? Should I give up my domain to a link farmer who is trying to bully me, or does he have a valid right to any phrase he registers that isn't already trademarked?"

I do! I do! I do believe in ghosts!-> 0

Submitted by Chemisor on Friday October 26 2007, @09:50AM

Chemisor writes "According to the latest survey by AP, 34% of the US population believes in ghosts. Among other interesting results are 19% who believe in spells and witchcraft, 48% who believe in ESP, and 5% (including at least one computer programmer!) who have seen a monster in their closet. Something tells me that the decline in the US science education levels has a ways to go yet..."
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Your browser is vulnerable to DNS Rebinding 1

Submitted by

Firefox

on Friday October 26 2007, @08:43AM

Firefox writes "DNS rebinding was discovered in 1996 and affected the Java Virtual Machine. Recently a group of researchers at Stanford found out that this vulnerability is still present in browsers and that the common solution, known as DNS pinning, is not effective anymore. Securityfocus tracked down one of the authors of the study, Adam Barth, to learn about the impact of the problem, which workarounds can be deployed right now, and how to protect browsers from DNS rebinding attacks in the long run. You can use the online test to check your software..."