colganc - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Digging Holes (Score 1) 809

by colganc on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @07:50PM (#26365657) Attached to: $30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs

I'd like to spend the $5 where I want it spent. Preferably on something that makes me more productive. Might be food, might be entertainment, but I don't want to pay someone to dig holes. They could be producing something useful for the world. Digging holes will never be "responsible investing". It is no better than trading houses back and forth at increased prices each time. No where in my post did I say there should be neither no government nor taxation and I'm not quite sure where you're getting that from in my post. I do however sarcastically imply I want my money to be used productively instead of for hole digging.

Comment Digging Holes (Score 4, Insightful) 809

by colganc on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @02:08PM (#26360319) Attached to: $30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs

Dig more holes faster please. Thanks for taking my hard earned rewards for work and giving it to someone else. I really appreciate it government.

Submission + - Jack Thompson responds to ArsTechnica

Submitted by

interactive_civilian

on Sunday March 18, 2007 @07:12AM

interactive_civilian writes: "Jack Thompson has personally replied to ArsTechnica regarding their coverage of the lawsuit from TakeTwo. Using his impressive depth of knowledge of legalese, he describes TakeTwo's move as "so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done" and then goes on to quote the Bible."

Submission + - Another Macbook Fire

Submitted by dsgfh on Monday March 12, 2007 @11:10PM

dsgfh writes: Unfortunately for apple, another Macbook has gone up in flames over the weekend. Apparently not part of the original battery recall, the machine in question was in standby mode on a bookcase, plugged in to charge when it ignited at 3 in the morning. http://www.betanews.com/article/Apple_MacBook_Fire _Poses_New_Safety_Questions/1173715199 BTW... where's the Fire Breathing Batteries topic when I submit a story?

Submission + - Chinese Cyber Attacks on DOD Networks

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:38AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "As seen in: SANS NewsBites Vol. 9 Num. 14 The Naval Network Warfare Command says Chinese hackers are relentlessly targeting Defense Department networks with cyber attacks. The "volume, proficiency and sophistication" of the attacks supports the theory that the attacks are government supported. The "motives [of the attacks emanating from China] ... include technology theft, intelligence gathering, exfiltration, research on DOD operations and the creation of dormant presences in DOD network for future action." http://www.fcw.com/article97658-02-13-07-Web&print Layout"

Submission + - Googleplex East: Search And The City

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:30AM

An anonymous reader writes: In Googleplex East: Search And The City, IWeek has posted a visual tour of the search giant's NYC HQ, complete with the requisite massage room, candy machine, and funky cafeteria. (There are even — surprise — work areas.) A companion story argues that New York City has reemerged as a tech center, citing the access to the Big Apple's media as a powerful pull for Web 2.0 companies. It also argues that NY's business community is more important these days to startups than Silicon Valley's deep pool of talent. Do you buy this thesis? Isn't it really unimportant these days where you work? (Where do you work, and would you go to either NY or the Valley, given the high cost of living in both areas?)

Submission + - Great Games Contest

Submitted by

James Wiley

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @06:22PM

James Wiley writes: "THE GREAT GAMES CONTEST

Great Games, Great Community, Great Contest

GarageGames is proud to announce a contest for a brand new site dedicated to bringing developers, gamers, and publishers together with great games: GreatGamesExperiment.com. To create your account and get started head over to www.GreatGamesExperiment.com and use the promo code SlashDotGGE.

GarageGames is going beyond development tools to try to change the industry using the entire community of indie gamers. Great games deserve to be played, regardless of budget or bureaucracy. No one company or part of the community can do it alone. Gamers, developers, and publishers must unite to bring every essential component of the indie game process together.

Contest, Categories, Prizes

Here's a link to the contest categories and prizes, which include an Xbox 360 with XNA Creator's Club Membership, an ATI video card, an iPod shuffle, 2 free passes to the Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco, and more great prizes!

If you're reading this the contest has already started, this round ends on February 19th. GGE will be having a new contest every two weeks leading up to a two week contest after its full release to the public on March 5th, so there will be plenty of chances to win increasingly great prizes.

Gamers Wanted

Why are we giving away so much free stuff to a limited group of people? GGE is a community site, and therefore requires active community participation to thrive. We have the content, and now we're looking to get more gamers. Gamers on GGE aren't limited to playing games that have already been posted. If a game can be found, it can be posted — there are few limits to the games that community members can add. Having a large initial user base comprised mostly of developers and gamers will help to ensure that GGE will indeed result in a site that is dedicated to being the catalyst that drives the video game industry into the next generation of gaming.

Promote, Network, Discover, Download, Play

The goal of GGE is to be an all-in-one community for everything a lover of great games could want from a site. Promote your game; network with other developers and gamers; discover new games and old favorites; download free games and demos, or make yours available to others; play games and share your passion with an active community created for that very purpose."

Submission + - Jean Ichbiah, Chief Architect of Ada, Dies

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @06:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: Jean Ichbiah, the chief architect of the Ada programming language, has died (http://www.adaic.org/news/ichbiah.html). Although Ada is not widely used today outside of DoD, the language introduced a generation of programmers to practical language constructs for what had until then been esoteric features such as overloading, exception handling, and multi-tasking.

Submission + - Google can't spell ...

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @06:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google's artwork for today (Feb 14, 2007 — Valentine's Day) displays a chocolate covered strawberry in place of the lower case 'g' in their name but it looks like they forgot the 'l', so today it's spelled Googe instead of Google. Oops! Check it out: www.google.com

Submission + - Can you sue for randomly generated profanity?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @05:41PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "It looks like a patent searcher has managed to get the European Patent Office CAPTCHA system to generate risque words. Are the EPO responsible for the content? Should/Could CAPTCHAS be censored?"

Submission + - Marc Fleury leader of JBoss, leaves RedHat

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2093145,00.as p Can open source really be bought? OSS is about people and brands. RedHat bought the brand, but can it hold on to the people?

Submission + - Intel Prototype Chip Raises Industry Bar

Submitted by

Carl Bialik from WSJ

on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:32AM

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "Intel has developed a prototype chip with the equivalent of 80 electronic brains, the latest sign of a design shift sweeping the semiconductor industry, the Wall Street Journal reports. The teraflop chip draws just 62 watts of power. From the article: 'Some jobs, like identifying and processing images, are ideal for multibrained machines. Video-security systems might quickly scan and pick out a face in a crowd, for example, or a PC might automatically create video highlights of a single player in a football game, said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer. Mr. Rattner said cameras on future videogame systems could track users' motions — eliminating the need for the kind of hand-held controller offered with Nintendo Co.'s Wii console. Realistic three-dimensional models of users could be transferred into videogames, or programs like a digital dance lesson. "Then you could put the model for your partner in there," Mr. Rattner says. "If you step on their toes, it's not a big deal." '"

Submission + - Edible RFID Tags

Submitted by giampy on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:29AM

giampy writes: New Scientist is reporting that Kodak has filed a patent for edible RFID tags. "The tags would be covered with soft gelatin that takes a while to dissolve in the stomach. After swallowing a tag a patient need only sit next to a radio source and receiver". They claim that these tags could be embedded in pills and used to monitor a person digestive system, among other things.

Submission + - AACS broken for all HD and Blu-ray disks

Submitted by on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:26AM

An anonymous reader writes: Two months after Muslix64 initially publicized his method for getting AACS keys, a user on Doom9 has found the processing key, which is able to decrypt all disks for both formats released thus far. The exploit can even be reused for future keys. This will allow the creation of a one-click backup utility and is a major blow against DRM.

Geo-Engineering to stop Climate Change 551

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:00AM from the trying-to-make-a-better-tomorrow dept.

MattSparkes writes "Following the latest report of the United Nations climate change panel, there has been a flurry of renewed interest in so-called geo-engineering. This is the theory of using technological schemes to stop climate change. These can range from sun-shades orbiting the Earth, to pumping millions of tonnes of sulfur into the atmosphere to the bizarre idea of painting the ground white to reflect more light. Let's reduce our emissions now, before I have to go and paint my roof bright white." Thanks to jamie for pointing out another potential solution of seeding the southern oceans with iron to spur plankton growth.

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