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Journal Journal: Ruby On Rails official wiki totally spammed

Journal by jodosha on Saturday January 13, 2007 @03:45PM

In the last hours official Ruby On Rails wiki was totally spammed by automatic scripts. Now it's totally unusable, every page was defaced about 700 times.
The only way to read original version of a page is append '/versions/1' to the end of the url.
It was just created a discussion page, to solve the problem.

Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed 473

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 13, 2007 @02:14PM from the house-of-cards dept.

kad77 writes "It appears that, despite skepticism, 'muslix64' was the real deal. Starting from a riddle posted on pastebin.com, members on the doom9 forum identified the Title key for the HD-DVD release 'Serenity.' Volume Unique Keys and Title keys for other discs followed within hours, confirming that software HD-DVD players, like any common program, store important run-time data in memory. Here's a link to decryption utility and sleuthing info in the original doom9 forum thread. The Fair Use crowd has won Round One; now how will the industry respond?"

Submission + - Print Messages on your Beer

Submitted by

Migraineman

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @01:09PM

Migraineman writes: "I stumbled upon a clever hack by Sprite. He reverse engineered the pin functions on an HP inkjet cartridge, and built a simple driver board that converts the cartridge into a hand-held inkjet printer. The driver board is programmed with a fixed message. Moving the "print head" is your responsibility, but it leads to some interesting applications. Printing messages on a whiteboard was the original inspiration, but printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired."

CNET Accuses Apple of Over-Hyping Launch 382

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday March 05, 2006 @05:11PM from the bring-back-fireside-chats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A columnist at CNET is questioning whether Apple over-hyped last week's launch. From the article: 'Jobs' announcement of a new leather case for the iPod was especially ridiculous. Like the queen announcing a new toaster in Buckingham Palace. It seemed odd that Jobs was troubling himself to introduce fashion accessories to Apple's products.' Is Apple a victim of its own success? Can it hold a low-profile product launch anymore -- or do we inevitably expect too much?"

Audio Broadcast Flag Introduced in Congress 200

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 03, 2006 @04:55PM from the flagged-for-pvp dept.

Declan McCullagh writes "We found out in mid-2004 that the RIAA was lobbying the FCC for an audio version of the broadcast flag. But because a federal appeals court slapped down the FCC's video version last year, the RIAA needs to seek formal authorization from Congress. That process finally began today when the audio flag bill was introduced. It would hand the FCC the power to set standards and regulate digital and satellite radio receivers, and RIAA Chairman Mitch Bainwol says it strikes "a balance that's good for the music, good for the fans, and good for business." The text of the bill is available online."

Comment Re:Here is one they won't ever implement (Score 1) 1060

by Fragglebabe on Wednesday January 04, 2006 @09:54AM (#14391626) Attached to: Share Your Most Dangerous Idea

I think the point of the statement "we are all created equal" really means that when a human being is born, anywhere in the world, it is equal to every other baby that is being born at that instant, all babies born in the past, and all yet to be born in the future. What it then implicitly means is that it is society which imposes equal or inequal rights for all different kinds of people. If you are lucky enough to live in a society (as I do) with a fair and accomodating social security system, and legislation in place to prevent all sorts of discrimination, then you must remember that not everbody does. Rousseau said "Man is free yet everywhere he is in chains", and that can mean many things from the legislative restraints placed on us by our society, or the atrocities such as the apartheid in south africa or slavery in the US in the 18th century. The point of the statement "we are all created equal" is to point out that although all the people in the world begin their lives as equals, we very quickly become subject to the influences and rules of the societies that we are born into. If you are lucky enough to live in the West then often the greatest inconvenience is having to drive at the speed limit or having to pay extra tax when you buy cigarettes. It isn't the same the world over, but it is something that we must hope will rectify it's self with time.

If you're interested in the subject, there are many good books to read, but the best are Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. Both tackle the issues of the equalities and inequalties of the natural human state and those imposed on us by established societies.

Comment Re:Doesn't validate... (Score 2, Informative) 748

by Hungry Student on Thursday September 22, 2005 @10:58AM (#13621618) Attached to: Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS

W3C is perfectly stable, its taking issue with your non-quoted href attributes. Look at error # 12: "an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name characters."

As a general rule, quote all attributes, much more future-proof (XHTML requires all attributes be quoted), and much easier on the eyes when using a syntax-highlighting editor. FYI, I downloaded a snippet of your HTML, quoted the attributes, ran it back through the validator, and it validates (save for the lack of a doctype).

Hope this helps.

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