Comment Re:not true for everyone (Score 1) 201
And, no doubt, all the ramen you eat contributes to it all ;-)
Comment Re:Most porn isn't blocked (Score 2, Funny) 126
That's the censors "reviewing" the ..er.. material
Comment Re:Global warming is the cause (Score 2) 285
Smart people train themselves not to miss the forest for the trees.
Comment Re:Was Not Impressed at All (Score 1) 955
The difference between this and Star Wars is that George Lucas lost his touch after ep IV. The lost writers lost their touch after Season 1
Comment Re:Not impressed, but here's my take (Score 1) 955
Jacobs Ladder?
How To Behave At a Software Company? 842
dawilcox writes "I'm a recent grad and am going to begin work at a software company. I want to make a good impression on my boss and coworkers. I know that performance is usually tracked, but there are also innate personality traits of good software developers that bosses just want to have around. What are those personality traits? What should I be trying to do in order to make a good impression on the people at my work?" (Appropriate side question: What behavior traits would you like your co-workers to exhibit?)
ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search 385
It was only a matter of time before ISPs began doing more than just redirecting failed DNS requests to their own pages.
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the largest ISP in Hong Kong has started bypassing search results from Firefox's location bar (which typically uses Google), forcing their own search provider (yp.com.hk) onto their users. ... Can an ISP just start re-directing search traffic at will?"
Comment Re:Mod parent up (Score 3, Informative) 269
Review is done by 'peers' i.e. other scientists, who do this as a service - no charge. The only cost incurred by the journal is typesetting and proofreading.
Comment Re:Blasphemy! (Score 1) 640
Don't forget- they are your ancestors too!
Comment Deus Ex - Hong Kong (Score 1) 385
They had this in Deus Ex hong hong, as a mechanism to prevent you from doing any shooting on that level
Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology 385
theodp writes "After a week that saw more than 40 people shot and at least 4 killed, Chicago politicians and police are at odds on whether to implement ShotSpotter, a camera and acoustic sensor-based gunshot-location system that is designed to pinpoint a shooter's location within seconds. The Chicago Police Department opposes such a move, saying ShotSpotter wasn't reliable in an earlier trial and — at $250,000 for a square mile of coverage — is too expensive. The company says the system has dramatically lowered crime rates in cities across the country. ShotSpotter is currently deployed in two countries and 51 US cities and counties."
Comment 4D tris (Score 1) 303
Comment Re:xkcd (Score 1) 303
Funnily enough, when I read the comic early in the morning the reference to the game was absent (The 2nd panel was not there) though the theme was the same.
Comment Re:After Reading The IIPA Documents (Score 1) 650
Whaat?! He read the article? He even read the source documents? He even tried to understand it? He even tried to explain it to us morons who like to make knee-jerk reactions to the hyperbole headlines that is Slashdot? Who let him in? Who let him in?
What Knowledge Gaps Do Self-Taught Programmers Generally Have? 396
BeardedChimp writes "I, like many others here, have learned to program by myself. Starting at a young age and learning through fiddling I have taught myself C++, Java, python, PHP, etc., but what I want to know is what I haven't learned that is important when taught in a traditional computer science curriculum. I have a degree in physics, so I'm not averse to math. What books, websites, or resources would you recommend to fill in the gaps?"
