Comment Personal Question (Score 2) 48
Will you come sing at my birthday party, pro bono? I am old enough for this to be weird, but you are a hero of mine.
Comment The basics... (Score 5, Insightful) 324
Money
Comment Re:Astroturfing Detected (Score 4, Interesting) 418
It is one our test for hiring a new developer. "If you google for help and there are 2 links, stackoverflow and somethingexchange which one do you click on?" If they don't say stack overflow, then they haven't done enough real world work for us.
Comment Re:No (Score 0) 522
We got a step closer, all our dev management is only part-time. They are also on a team doing development for the other half of their day. Wont work with all people, but it helps to keep management involved in day to day task, in the know.
I don't think this will work in areas where the employees aren't also the target market (they build games, w00t). But it doesn't mean something closer to this would make work more fun.
Comment Wrong Time! (Score 0) 4
Noon to 1 is the actual time. It wont let me update the time though.
Comment Re:Old man concerns (Score 0) 4
The time is off.. Should be from noon to 1. Just a 1 hour lunch shindig...
Comment Games to be played (Score 0) 4
I can bring Super Munchkin and a few other games.
Misc Slashdot Anniversary: Orem, UT, US 4
Comment Now, what to do about... (Score 1) 373
phone books?
Comment Re:That's odd (Score 0) 455
When one Enterprise falls.. they just rebuild it and and a new letter to the end. This one will be 'B', I think.
Comment Re:How long since you were in school? (Score 0) 417
The only way to get people not to cheat on test is give them nothing to cheat with. Which means either you take their intelligent essence to an alternate reality... or you can just give them a calculator instead of letting them use their own.
Comment I am sick of it... (Score 5, Funny) 193
Those dam quakes always screwing everything up!
Comment Re:Amazing (Score 5, Funny) 317
If the lexus buyers are compensating for something... what sort of spam do you think would be relevant?
7 Secure USB Drives Reviewed 146
jcatcw writes "Computerworld has reviewed seven USB drives that use either encryption or a physical keypad to protect stored data, and found big differences in I/O speeds, ease of use and strength of security. In the case of the drive using a key pad, the editors were able to break open the device and access the data, bypassing the PIN security. They also state that there is little difference between 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption because neither has been broken yet. The drives reviewed were the SanDisk Cruzer, the Lexar JumpDrive, the Kingston DataTraveler, the Imation Pivot Plus, the Corsair Survivor, the Corsair Padlock and the IronKey Secure USB Drive. The editors chose the IronKey as the most secure."
The Law and Politics of Battlestar Galactica 321
privacyprof writes "Fans of the show Battlestar Galactica might be interested in our interview with writers and producers Ron Moore and David Eick. Three law professors at the blog Concurring Opinions have an hour-long interview with Moore and Eick about the legal, political, moral, and economic issues raised by the show. The interview is available in audio files; alternatively, people can read a transcript of the interview (Part I) and (Parts II and III). Part I examines the lawyers and trials in the show, how torture is depicted, as well as how the humans must balance civil liberties and security. Part II examines politics and commerce. It explores how the cylon attack affected the humans' political system, and it examines how commerce works in the fleet. Part III examines issues related to cylons, such as the humans' treatment of cylons, how robots should be treated by the law, how the cylons govern themselves politically."
