rroman - Slashdot User

Submission + - What "news for nerds" sites should I use? 8

Submitted by stderr_dk on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:02AM

stderr_dk writes: I used to visit Slashdot quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters"-fix.

So, Slashdot, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?

Submission + - Community-sourced news site, soylentnews.org, goes live 18

Submitted by umafuckit on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:57AM

umafuckit writes: soylentnews.org is the new way of taking the pulse of the nerd community. Soylentnews is a grassroots-based platform with the content feeds are powered by readers like you. The objective is to highlight news stories of general importance to everyone, but especially nerds. News about technology, art, science and politics: it's all there. Soylentnews is the new kid on the block and will adapt quickly to satisfy our community's needs and and push boundaries like never before. This is a real community site: no changes in format without a general consensus from the community. Stop by and see what you think of the freshly-launched site.

Submission + - How can I improve my memory retention during studying? 4

Submitted by Sensei_knight on Monday January 13, 2014 @05:44PM

Sensei_knight writes: How serendipitous! Today I see Slashdot also has an article linking caffeine to long-term memory, but I digress. Recently I returned to college in my 30s after battling a childhood sleep disorder and I now discover staying awake might be the least of my troubles. Now that I failed a few classes I'm trying to analyze and overcome the causes of this recent disaster. Two things are obvious. First, it takes me way too long to complete tasks (as if suffering from time dilation) tests take me approximately twice the amount of time to finish[and the amount of time it takes to study and do homework is cumulative and unsustainable]. Secondly, I just can't seem to remember a whole lot. I know sleep and memory are very closely related, perhaps that's why I have never been able to commit the times tables to memory. my research in the subject of memory has not been very fruitful, therefore I want to ask/Slashdots for input into which angle/direction I should look into next. As for cognitive speed I have completely drawn a blank.

Submission + - EU Offers Public a Chance to Fix Copyright Law 1

Submitted by Anduril1986 on Monday January 13, 2014 @09:17AM

Anduril1986 writes: It seems the EU is giving the internet community a chance to give their thoughts on copyright reform. From Torrent Freak:
"Copyright and the Internet have been struggling to get along for many years and some feel we are now due a comprehensive update of the former in order for it to work more harmoniously with the latter. In deciding how to progress the EU Commission has opened a public consultation which allows all citizens – even those in the U.S. – a rare opportunity to change the path of copyright law. But with just three weeks left, time is ticking away."

Comment Re:Repost! (Score 1) 181

by rroman on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:39AM (#45844561) Attached to: How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won

Lol, this one should have been modded funny.

Comment Re:Repost! (Score 4, Funny) 181

by rroman on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @08:53AM (#45836229) Attached to: How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won

How is it possible, that this post was modded Funny? Slashdot is exactly what this post describes. Slashdot is mainly great because of great comments and well done comment rating system.

Comment Re:So, who wants to fork. (Score 2) 260

by rroman on Thursday November 07, 2013 @04:25PM (#45359873) Attached to: Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January

I don't mean to create flame war or something, but seriously, what aspects of Chrome are so good that Firefox can't match them? It used to be speed, but nowadays I would say that both browsers are pretty fast. In number of extensions, Firefox is the clear leader, so what is the reason?

Comment Re:We will get there eventually. (Score 1) 142

by rroman on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @11:46AM (#45336101) Attached to: One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet

That is the common and quite annoying misconception. The #45333961 says it exactly.

Comment Re:We will get there eventually. (Score 4, Informative) 142

by rroman on Monday November 04, 2013 @07:26PM (#45331305) Attached to: One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet

There is a big difference. If the theories we know are correct, then FTL information transmission can violate causality. c isn't just a speed limit which we are "not yet able to beat", its violation would violate basic principles of our existence.

Submission + - RSA warns developers not to use RSA products (cryptographyengineering.com)

Submitted by rroman on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:45PM

rroman writes: RSA has recommended developers not to use Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator (RNG), which has been known to be weak and slow since 2006. The funny thing is, that even though this has been known for so long, it is the default RNG in BSafe cryptographic toolkit, which is product of RSA.

Comment Youtube (Score 1) 352

by rroman on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:44AM (#44605681) Attached to: Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%

I think the drop was significantly because of Youtube. It was at night, when most people are just relaxing and everybody today watches YT in HD, which is quite a lot of data per second.

Comment Likely scenario (Score 1) 98

by rroman on Friday July 05, 2013 @05:20PM (#44198853) Attached to: Revelations On the French Big Brother

USA: "All countries, ok, we spy on you, but don't criticize us, you do that too"
France: "Hey, that is unacceptable you must stop"
USA: "Shut up France, we highly recommend you that"
France: "YOU HAVE TO STOP!!! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE"
USA: "NSA, could you give us some juicy information about France so they don't bitch about it so loud?"
NSA: "Oh yes, here you are."

Comment Re:Confused (Score 3, Informative) 86

by rroman on Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:41PM (#44191679) Attached to: Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS

It has been possible for some time via necessitas. Now they only added it to the official package. Most Qt apps are written on desktop using QtWidgets. When you are developing for mobile devices, you should use QtQuick. QtWidgets aren't designed for mobile devices.

Comment Re:Too bad we didn't have this 2-3 years ago (Score 2) 86

by rroman on Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:31PM (#44191627) Attached to: Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS

It is a bit late, but it is not too late. There is still no alternative to this. I think Qt will eventually become kind of standard for cross platform mobile development.

Comment Re:And still there's no such thing as magic (Score 1) 90

by rroman on Sunday June 23, 2013 @08:27PM (#44088367) Attached to: A Different Approach To Making Alternative Fuels Practical

That is not necessarily an issue. If you can produce cheap energy somewhere, but can not use it immediately, you can store it via this technology into something useful. The energy doesn't have to be from the sun.

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