Comment Re:Cheap labor (Score 5, Funny) 330
Austin is part of Texas. It's where we keep all of the Democrats.
Comment Re:duh (Score 1) 213
3 letter password? I guess not everything's bigger in Texas.
Just the idiots.
Submission + - Wisconsin Vote Controversy and Microsoft Access (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There a lot of analysis going on over a Wisconsin state judge election. Some additional votes were discovered, putting the conservative candidate ahead in a highly contested election. Conspiracy theories about on the left, with some finding implausible Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' claim that there was a computer error involving forgetting to save in Microsoft Access that led to earlier announced vote totals being wrong. This has a lot for geeks to talk about, from how Microsoft Access works to the statistical analysis of voting to the poorly-run IT by Nickolaus.
Comment Re:Hahaha (Score 1) 313
this is why copyrights should only be 5 years.....
Comment Re:Cell Phone Jammers? (Score 1) 428
Well where I worked the supervisors and warden carried cell phones as did the tower officers. I worked tower for almost two years and always had my cell phone with me. If I needed to call the supervisor I had a direct line. If you use the radio every inmate knows what is happening. So jamming wouldn't work, at least in my case.
Submission + - Zionists organize to edit Wikipedia (nytimes.com) 4
djconrad writes: NYTime's The Lede has a piece (and video interview) on an "instruction day for Wiki editors," whose goal is to present a Zionist perspective. From the article: At the opening seminar, attended by about 80 activists, one of the organizers, Naftali Bennett, said that the aim of the course is to make sure that information in the online encyclopedia reflects the worldview of Zionist groups. For example, he said, “if someone searches [for] ‘the Gaza flotilla,’ we want to be there; to influence what is written there, how it’s written and to ensure that it is balanced and Zionist in nature.”
Submission + - How can so many wrongs be a copyright? (arstechnica.com)
ColdWetDog writes: Ars is running perhaps the oddest copyright story ever. A small company called BlueBeat.com has decided that storing another copy of a copyrighted song (In this case, the Beatles) allows them to submit this new "performance" for copyright (which of course is owned by BlueBeat) and sell it legally. For $0.25 a track. Nice price. Weird lawyers. RIAA is not amused.
Submission + - Pentagon Wants ‘Space Junk’ Cleaned Up (takefreetime.com)
slreboy writes: The orbit around Earth is a very messy place and the Pentagon’s far-out research arm wants to do something about it. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a notice yesterday requesting information on possible solutions to the infamous space debris problem.
“Since the advent of the space-age over five decades ago, more than thirty-five thousand man-made objects have been cataloged by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network,” the agency notes. “Nearly twenty-thousand of those objects remain in orbit today, ninety-four percent of which are non-functioning orbital debris.”
“Since the advent of the space-age over five decades ago, more than thirty-five thousand man-made objects have been cataloged by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network,” the agency notes. “Nearly twenty-thousand of those objects remain in orbit today, ninety-four percent of which are non-functioning orbital debris.”
Comment Re:Obvious (Score 1) 542
We're Geeks you insensitive clod!
lol... I read that as "We're Greeks". Kind of changes the meaning.
Comment Re:Watch out on the usb floppy.. (Score 1) 533
"creating 360k disks in a 1.2MB drive may not be easily readable by an actual 360k drive "
What I always did was erase the floppy with a strong magnet before you format it on the 1.2MB drive. That way the space between the tracks don't have conflicting data on them to mess up the read on the 360k drive. Always seemed to work for me.
Comment Re:Stop isolating games for their interactivity... (Score 1) 518
Look, the whole world culture is becoming more violent when compared to - say - the 1950s.
Not really, at least not in the US. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm
Look when the drop started. Just about the time violent video games became available.
Comment Re:I can see money! (Score 1) 848
If this passes, I'm going to open up an Institute of Paranormal Studies in Texas, and hire every two bit crackpot psychic to be professors!
If you do, put it in Crosbyton next to the MT. Blanco Museum http://www.mtblanco.com/ you will be in good company.
JonWan
Comment Re:I thought we already had this option... (Score 1) 355
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Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash 361
Anti-Globalism passes along a review in Ars of some recent speculation on the role of interconnected computer models in the global economic crash. "If Ritholtz, Taleb, Mandelbrot, and the rest of the computer modeling and financial engineering naysayers are correct about the big picture, then we really are arguably in the midst a bona fide computer crash. Not an individual computer crash, of course, but a computer crash in the sense of Sun Microsystems' erstwhile marketing slogan, 'the network is the computer.' That is, we have all of these machines in different sectors of the economy, and we've networked all of them together either directly (via an actual network) or indirectly (by using the collective 'output' of machines in one sector as input for the machines in another sector), and like any other computer system the whole thing hums along nicely... up until the point when it doesn't."
Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans 92
US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) is one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission that released a comprehensive 96-page report on Dec. 8 under the title, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The aim of the Commission is to help the incoming administration balance "cyberspace" security needs with civil liberties. We'd like to thank Rep. Langevin and his staff (some of whom are ardent Slashdot readers) for taking time to answer your (hopefully) cogent questions. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply, and — also as usual — we'll post Rep. Langevin's answers as soon as he gets them back to us.
