Comment Re:bringing in more H1Bs will solve this problem (Score 2) 250
iirc Automotive Linux [ http://automotive.linuxfoundat... ] is HTML5/Javascript on the frontend...
Comment Re:bringing in more H1Bs will solve this problem (Score 1) 250
As an Australian, I'm not seeing many C jobs. I wish.
Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen 169
Nerval's Lobster writes According to Microsoft developer Raymond Chen, Steve Ballmer didn't like the original text that accompanied the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen in Windows 3.1, so he wrote up a new version. If you used Windows at any point in the past two decades, you can thank him for that infuriatingly passive 'This Windows application has stopped responding to the system' message, accompanied by the offer to hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete again to restart the PC (and lose all your unsaved data).
Update: 09/09 15:30 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that Ballmer authored the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen, not the BSoD, as originally stated.
Comment Re:Welcome to the world of the Cloud... (Score 1) 45
It's all smoke and mirrors...
Comment Re:Ban caffeine! (Score 1) 511
I guess we'd better ban rugs too then. All those trippy patterns are surely making our youth want to experiment with hallucinogens. Oh, the huge manatee.
Comment Last post! (Score 1) 183
The correct answer starts with raspberry and smells like pie.
Comment Re:he is guilty of the ultimate crime (Score 1) 583
Still don't understand why he didn't just register nsaleakdotcomorsimilar and put them up anonymously...
Comment ......cool (Score 0) 134
Well..... if that's front page news on Slashdot, you kids will love my stuff when it's ready
Comment Sadness (Score 1) 302
Too young
Comment Re:I was just 10 years old (Score 1) 623
I feel like we need an IRC channel for people who started in the pre-GUI era.
Comment Re:I was just 10 years old (Score 1) 623
Ah, QB45.exe
Comment I was just 10 years old (Score 1) 623
QBASIC on I think a Toshiba T2200. I thought my Dad was a brilliant programmer, but actually he was converting old BASICA games from a different system. I learnt from those snippets.
Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV 70
An anonymous reader writes "When it comes to spotting malware, signature-based detection, heuristics and cloud-based recognition and information sharing used by many antivirus solutions today work well up a certain point, but the polymorphic malware still gives them a run for their money. At the annual AusCert conference held this week in Australia a doctorate candidate from Deakin University in Melbourne has presented the result of his research and work that just might be the solution to this problem. Security researcher Silvio Cesare had noticed that malware code consists of small "structures" that remain the same even after moderate changes to its code. He created Simseer, a free online service that performs automated analysis on submitted malware samples and tells and shows you just how similar they are to other submitted specimens. It scores the similarity between malware (any kind of software, really), and it charts the results and visualizes program relationships as an evolutionary tree."
Comment Re:Just like with porn. (Score 1) 551
Damn you, Slashdot. I wish to give this anonymous coward my upvote!
Comment Re:Oh, well... (Score 1) 551
Though, considering the frivolity of it all....
