Feed New York Times: Bits : Facebook Members Sell their Own Ads (nytimes.com)
More than 1,500 Facebook users have started placing advertisements on their own profile pages--despite the social networking site’s rule against such ads.
Feed New York Times: Macrovision Agrees to Buy Gemstar-TV Guide for $2.8 Billion in Stock and Cash (nytimes.com)
The two companies said the deal will allow consumers to pull up a guide on their TV and receive personalized content and information.
Journal Journal: PirateBay 1
Uhh where's thepiratebay.org gone?
Submission + - World's first banner ad (thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com)
roman1 writes: When HotWired decided to make money from their website in 1994, they set in motion events that would come back to haunt us all: The creation of the world's first banner ad.
Feed Engadget: The $4 Wireless Sensor Bar: for that special Wii in your life (engadget.com)
Filed under: Gaming
So, your Wii sensor bar has slid down the back of your TV for the umpteenth time and you just aren't up for diving into the rats nest of cables this time, maybe this time you should just leave it there. You can pick up this Wireless Sensor Bar for a mere $4, a quarter of what you'll pay for most competing products. Of course, they're using the term "wireless" liberally here, and the bit about being "detected automatically by your Wii console" is pure rubbish -- all it takes is a pair of IR emitters, or even a couple candles to make a sensor bar replacement -- but we'll let it slide for this kind of price.[Via Wii News]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Submission + - (how) do you print your code? 2
Thunder Rabbit writes: "When trying to grok the flow of code, I can't always do it just on the screen. When I come across a closing bracket, it may be several hundred lines below its opener. Even if they are correctly commented, it's hard for me to get the overview into my brain.
At my office, though I can print the code in syntax driven glorious full color, it comes out on individual sheets of letter paper (landscape, with minimized margins).
I long for the fanfold paper we had in university. It was black and white, but it was all contiguous; I could draw lines along the left margin connecting opening and closing brackets, and immediately get a better sense of the program's flow. And (goodness forbid) a bug caused by a missing or superfluous bracket? I could find that problem in a trice.
Nowadays I print my pages, then use tape to string them all together to get my fanfold fix.
What about you? How do you print your code?"
At my office, though I can print the code in syntax driven glorious full color, it comes out on individual sheets of letter paper (landscape, with minimized margins).
I long for the fanfold paper we had in university. It was black and white, but it was all contiguous; I could draw lines along the left margin connecting opening and closing brackets, and immediately get a better sense of the program's flow. And (goodness forbid) a bug caused by a missing or superfluous bracket? I could find that problem in a trice.
Nowadays I print my pages, then use tape to string them all together to get my fanfold fix.
What about you? How do you print your code?"
Feed news.com: Police swoop in on New Zealand botmaster (news.com)
The suspect, seized as part of the FBI's Operation Bot Roast, is alleged to have had illegal control over 1 million computers.
Bookmark Cell Phone Battery Didn't Kill Korean Worker (pcworld.com)
Feed The Register: Rove investigator erases his PCs - to kill computer virus (theregister.com)
Outside firm performs seven-level wipe
A US official overseeing a probe of former Bush aide Karl Rove has been called on the carpet after it was discovered he hired a private computer-help company to erase all the hard drives belonging to him and two deputies.
Feed news.com: Motorola's Zander out after Razr deemed one-hit wonder (news.com)
Two years ago, Ed Zander was flying high on the success of the Razr. Now he's stepping down as CEO after failing to come up with an encore.
Submission + - Wearing a computer at work 1
Roland Piquepaille writes: "The European Union has funded an ambitious project related to wearable technology. This project, named WearIT@work will end in one year and was funded with 14.3 million euros of EU money, even if the total project cost is expected to exceed 23 million euros. For mobile workers, the goal is to replace traditional interfaces, such as screen, keyboard or computer unit, by speech control or gesture control, without modifying the applications. This wearable system is currently being tested in four different fields including aircraft maintenance, emergency response, car production and healthcare. But read more for additional references and pictures showing emergency rescuers and doctors using some of these wearable computers to ease their work."
Submission + - How to convince a coworker to use getters/setters 2
An anonymous reader writes: I've just started a new job as a PHP programmer at a small startup. Two other programmers work at the company. One is a recent hire like me, and the other has worked there for several years, entirely in isolation, writing what he believes to be top-notch PHP code. The problem is this was his first professional coding gig and his code is kludgy, buggy, quirky and smacks of a lot of bad habits. He doesn't use getters and setters. He modifies the values in the $_GET, $_POST, and $_REQUEST superglobals. He makes excessive use of objectionable features of PHP such as the @ error suppression construct and the global keyword. He suppresses all warnings and notices. He uses __autoload() and other magical functions. But he wrote 99% of the code, and as convoluted as it is, it works and runs the business successfully. He feels threatened by us newcomers when we try to suggest he should do things differently. How can we (the newcomers) convince him to practice good encapsulation by using getters & setters for a start?
Submission + - Ron Paul 1
zionHopeful writes: I know SlashDot readers are hot about Ron Paul, but SlashDot hasn't had many stories on Ron Paul. Like:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/debates/scorecard/youtube.debate.112807/results.html
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/debates/scorecard/youtube.debate.112807/results.html
Journal Journal: Short-term reversal of skin aging in mice
Researchers at Stanford University have temporarily reversed skin aging on mice by blocking the action of a single protein. The finding may eventually enable older people heal as they did when they were younger. However, Howard Chang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology and senior author of the study, says the study lead to short-term treatments in older people, but cautions it is not a future fountain of yo
Feed Engadget: Asus intros sleek Nova P22 desktop (engadget.com)
Filed under: Desktops
Asus, currently on a crash-bang roller derby thanks to the massive success of the Eee, has stepped up its game in the desktop arena today with the announcement of the Nova P22. The sleek, white and orange box is in the size class of the Mac Mini, standing at just 2-inches in height, and features a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo E6320 processor with a 1.06GHz front-side bus, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and what appears to be some sweet media center options. As of right now, the PC is only available in Taiwan, where you'll drop around $1,019 for bragging rights. We can only hope they bring something with this much style to the US, so the Mini vs. Nova P22 flamewar can begin in earnest. The ball is in your court, Asus.[Via Electronista]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
