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Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them 143

Several readers have sent word of a Twitter bug which has been allowing users to make any other user follow them by simply tweeting "accept [username]." People have been abusing it to make the accounts of various celebrities and publications follow them. Twitter acknowledged the bug and disabled the follow/unfollow system until they can get it fixed.

Comment Re:Is StarCraft the right game to use for this? (Score 1) 200

Congrats. Your comment made it to teamliquid's post on this competition

EDIT: The competition's also been slashdotted, where it's being discussed by various people who don't know too much:

Perhaps a game not so dominated by rushing tactics would be a better choice of base game? It definitely seems an interesting idea, but there must be games better suited to an AI contest like this...

lol.

Comment Private browsing mode (Score 1) 436

We knew it was coming. After chrome's incognito mode, everyone knew that people like to watch pr0n without worrying about the sites showing up in the awesome/whatever-the-fuck-is-the-name-bar! I have a shortcut (chrome -incognito) just for that reason but now it seems like I can do all that right from Firefox!

It's good but, IMHO, not perfect though. The private browsing mode saves+hides your current tabs and starts a new session in the new mode, and when you switch it off, it loads all those tabs all over again! It's perfect for casual users but for freaks like me who have close to 100 tabs open on an average, it's not the right way to go. I would have preferred it to be done the way chrome handles it - open the private mode in a completely new window and run both the sessions simultaneously depending upon which window the user is browsing on. I hope they tweak it soon or someone makes an extension to run it that way.

Comment Re:Isn't this a little overkill? (Score 1) 436

I don't think you should generalize it that way. I don't consider myself a power user (maybe on the boundary of it) but I inevitably end up having ~100 tabs open for reasons very similar to what GP pointed out. Keeping the tabs open and letting the browser run for days on end is not as rare as you may believe. Add to that the tendency of opening forum threads in different tabs, throw in some online publication/books/manga sites, documentation for whatever project you may be working on, links for interesting stuff you came across and left for reading up later, and you get to a similar scenario.

Comment Re:Fuck your fucking spiders! (Score 1) 373

That freaked me out a bit. While sitting on my bed waiting for my nerves to calm down, a fly or something flew right into my ear. That was too much for me. Too many bugs. I went and slept in another room.

Hehe that part cracked me up. I have had some moderately bad experience with spiders but nothing as bad as two of them crawling on my face. :)

Google

Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print 607

Much ink and many electrons are being spilled over Google's Chrome browser (discussed here twice in recent days): from deep backgrounders to performance benchmarks to its vulnerability to a carpet-bombing flaw. The latest angle to be explored is Chrome's end-user license agreement. It does not look consumer-friendly. "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
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User Charged With Taking ISP Tech Hostage 327

User AttheCoalFac pointed us to an interesting tech support story from Canada. Halifax actress and playwright Carol Sinclair was arrested and is now facing criminal charges after a repairman says she threatened to hold him hostage until he fixed her Internet connection. Mrs. Sinclair denies the allegations and says that she merely stated, 'I don't want to hold you hostage, but would you mind hanging around until the other technician arrives so that the two of you can sort it out.' She was arraigned in Halifax Provincial Court Friday and is now free on conditions including that she have no contact with the repairman or any employee from her ISP. Having a lot of experience on both sides of this issue, I'm not sure who I'm cheering for.

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