nes11 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:good (Score 1) 293

by nes11 on Tuesday November 09 2010, @04:09PM (#34179106) Attached to: Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles?

Mind you, my primary form of contraception is never having sex. My wife hates to try (her idea of foreplay is, "I think I'm drunk enough. Go.") and I had to give up after years of nothing but bad sex followed by 30 minutes of her crying afterwards. I'm no good for entertainment, no good for reproduction. What good am I?

I don't want to post any more. I'm sad.

I wish this didn't make me laugh so hard. Now I feel bad. nah, no i don't.

Who thinks Firehose software is working right? 6

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Wednesday May 07 2008, @09:42AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I find the Firehose software to be infuriating. It seems to have no 'stickiness' but constantly reverts to other views and searches than what I was looking at. I'm about ready to give up on it unless they tell me they recognize it's dumb and are doing something to make it work right. Am I the only one who feels this way?"

Comment: Casio POS (Score 1) 1

by nes11 on Sunday April 13 2008, @04:54PM (#23056674) Attached to: Cash registers - can you access you own data?

I work for a POS reseller that resells Casio products for low-end customers. They have a very wide range of mid-level cash registers that do exactly what you want.

Red scientology tomato rotting in Firehose?-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 08 2008, @03:56PM

An anonymous reader writes "A posting to the Slashdot Firehose related to a Wikinews story on Wikileaks and legal threats from Scientology, seems to be stuck in the Slashdot firehose red as a ripe tomato for more than 24 hours.
The story that covers a recent press release on Wikileaks relating to copyright claims made by the Church's legal representatives towards the published "Operating Thetan" cult manual, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in scam money, already spawned a hot discussion on the Wikinews portal. With critics of cult-critics trying to shut the story down for hours, it finally went online. And now seems stuck in the Firehose. One can only hope not for the wrong reasons."
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Calculating the Date of Easter 336

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 23 2008, @01:31PM
from the computus-giganticus dept.

The God Plays Dice blog has an entertaining post on how the date of Easter is calculated. Wikipedia has all the messy details of course, but the blog makes a good introduction to the topic. "Easter is the date of the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21... [T]he cycle of Easter dates repeat themselves every 5,700,000 years. The cycle of epacts (which encode the date of the full moon) in the Julian calendar repeat every nineteen years. There are two corrections made to the epact, each of which depend[s] only on the century; one repeats (modulo 30, which is what matters) every 120 centuries, the other every 375 centuries, so the [p]air of them repeat every 300,000 years. The days of the week are on a 400-year cycle, which doesn't matter because that's a factor of 300,000. So the Easter cycle has length the least common multiple of 19 and 300,000, which is 5,700,000 [years]."

What the CIA really thinks of Internet Explorer 3

Submitted by

Mike

on Wednesday January 02 2008, @06:35PM

Mike writes "Ever wonder what the CIA really thinks of Microsoft's Internet Explorer? How about just viewing the source of some of their javascript programs. When defining variables to define the browser the client uses, the CIA is very specific. Just look at the javascript source for the program found here: https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/break-the-code/code-1.html and you will see the CIA is telling the kiddies of the world that Microsoft's Internet Explorer is: bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk.

Here is the sample code:
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk=(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5')!=-1&&navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac')!=-1)

Nice. At the very least, you see how the CIA views the browser."

Microsoft Opens Its Security Research Cookbooks 87

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 27 2007, @09:31PM
from the now-cook-me-up-some-pie dept.

greg65535 writes "Today Microsoft launched a blog about the internals of their IT security research and patch development process. There are already some posts that you will not find in the official security bulletins or KB articles. One of the posts says, 'We periodically identify workarounds or mitigations like this that we can't use for official guidance because they're either too nuanced or have some exception cases. When we discover something potentially useful but are uncomfortable listing it in the bulletin, we'll do our best to describe it here in this blog.' It looks like Microsoft is making an effort to become more 'open' in the area of security research and communication."

Software Firewall for Windows? 2

Submitted by

Futurepower(R)

on Thursday December 27 2007, @11:10AM

Futurepower(R) writes "We have found that providing security is our biggest expense in using Windows, much more than the cost of buying Windows.

Can you recommend a software firewall for Windows? We need outbound leak protection. (Windows firewall does not provide leak protection.) When one program tries to use another, we need notification of the names and locations of both programs. We would like email notification of intrusion attempts.

We know about the Matousec firewall tests, but those are only leak tests.

Recent versions of the software firewall we have been using have been slowing some computers to a crawl, interfering with our backup software, randomly blocking our remote access software, and stealing focus when it does automatic updates at times that cannot be controlled. (We use a hardware firewall, too, of course, and limit user rights.)"

AVG Anti-Virus to Users: Pray for mercy, infidels!-> 1

Submitted by Lincoln6Echo on Wednesday December 26 2007, @02:49PM

Lincoln6Echo writes "I've been using and reselling AVG products for a few years now. Lately they appear to have begun a campaign to "be more corporate". I'd like to add my two cents towards their new corporate image and to user's impression of non-compromised AVG updates: remove the page that says "Pray for mercy, infidels!" from your SSL protected website. I found it when I made a mistake logging into the resellers console at https://biz.grisoft.cz/ (not https://biz.grisoft.com/) which is supposed to now redirect you to https://secure.grisoft.com."
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The Home Library Problem Solved-> 1

Submitted by

Zack Grossbart

on Monday December 10 2007, @09:53PM

Zack Grossbart writes "About 18 months ago I posted the following question to Ask SlashDot, "How do you organize a home library with 3,500 books?" I have read all the responses, reviewed most of the available software, and come up with a good solution described in the article The Library Problem. This article discusses various cataloging schemes, reviews cheap barcode scanners, and outlines a complete solution for organizing your home library. Now you can see an Ask SlashDot question with a definitive answer."
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