jlechem - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Gerrymandering (Score 1) 215

by jlechem on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @02:20AM (#41522139) Attached to: Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud

I have to agree with this, here in Utah they re-drew the entire state's districts for the house and congress to skew even more Republic then we already do and to especially screw Jim Matheson. It made all the local news, papers, and even the local NPR but no one I knew hardly gave a shit.

Comment A few things (Score 5, Informative) 151

by jlechem on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:36PM (#41402763) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase?

1. Buy or get a machine to host SVN for version control. I work on my wife's company website and some basic management tools. SVN has saved my bacon on multiple times where I thought I had lost some code.

2. Get a pre-production server and test your code! Sounds like you're living in the wild west and that shit flies until something goes horribly wrong and you're the guy who gets blamed.

Comment Re:Deaf community will hate this (Score 1) 101

by jlechem on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @10:15PM (#41319637) Attached to: Stem Cells Turn Hearing Back On

I don't have the deafness, but I suffer from Tinnitus too and would also give anything to repair the damaged cells in my ears. Stuff like this gives me hope I might actually get cured of this some day.

Comment Depends (Score 1) 415

by jlechem on Saturday August 18, 2012 @05:01PM (#41039201) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: I Want To Read More. Should I Get an eBook Reader Or a Tablet?

Do you want to read or have a media device?
My wife has a kindle that she just wants to read on. If you want to read, watch movies, listen to mp3s, and browse the web get a tablet. If you just want books for the airplane or car ride get an eReader.

Comment Re:Where does the Higgs mass come from? (Score 1) 82

by jlechem on Monday March 05, 2012 @05:32PM (#39253931) Attached to: Precise W Boson Mass Measurement Helps Lead the Way To the Higgs Boson

IANATP but I enjoy reading about this stuff. Wikipedia has a semi decent article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson Somehow these higgs bosons form a field that as other particles travel through it causes them slow down and have mass. Very layman answer and probably wrong but is how I see it from the wiki article.

Comment Re:And money changes hands... (Score 4, Insightful) 373

by jlechem on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:56PM (#38349034) Attached to: Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

Totally agree, and I'm sure someone will nerd rage and create the next adblock plus plus that will block all ads again until they decide to take the money and run. Kind of a vicious cycle but as long as someone picks up the torch I am happy. Hell I might even be motivated enough to get off my fat American ass and do it myself.

Submission + - Has the Higgs Been Discovered? Physicists Gear Up (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: The physics buzz reached a frenzy in the past few days over the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is planning to release what is widely expected to be tantalizing although not conclusive evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle hypothesized to be the origin of the mass of all matter.

Many physicists have already swung into action, swapping rumors about the contents of the announcement and proposing grand ideas about what those rumors would mean, if true. "It's impossible to be excited enough," says Gordon Kane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Submission + - Bad code plagues business applications, especially (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

jlechem

on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:15PM

jlechem writes: "A new study examining 365 million lines of code in 745 applications identifies bad coding practices that affect security, performance and uptime, with Java Enterprise Edition applications having the greatest number of problems. Cast Software, which makes tools that automate the analysis of business applications, examined programs written in Java-EE, .NET, ABAP, C, C++, Cobol, Oracle Forms, and Visual Basic, used across a wide range of industries from energy and financial services to IT consulting, insurance, government, retail, telecom, and more."

Submission + - Water Found on Mars (wired.com)

Submitted by RCC42 on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:10PM

RCC42 writes: The opportunity rover has found evidence of liquid water once flowing on mars through the discovery of gypsum, a mineral that can only be formed in the presence of water.

Though other evidence in the past has suggested at highly acidic water on Mars, this is the first evidence for water with a pH suitable for life as we know it.

Submission + - Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:28PM

walterbyrd writes: "The company also noted that along with the app, it may also scrub data created by the app from a device."

Submission + - Photos capture wind turbine bursting into flames (news.stv.tv)

Submitted by sanzibar on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:24PM

sanzibar writes: A wind turbine went up in flames as gust of up to 160mph battered parts of Scotland.

Mr McMahon, who captured the spectacular fire in photos, added: "I didn’t hear any explosion or anything, but my wife shouted for me to come down and see the fire.

Submission + - Earliest Human Beds Found in South Africa (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:23PM

sciencehabit writes: A team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects.

Submission + - A Cloaked Alien Spaceship Orbiting Mercury? (discovery.com)

Submitted by

astroengine

on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:10PM

astroengine writes: "A viral YouTube video is doing the rounds apparently depicting a "cloaked" alien spaceship in orbit around Mercury. The video, composed of observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), appears to show a UFO glow after being hit by a coronal mass ejection. Sadly, this is in fact a very well known artifact that appears in the data after background noise calculations are made. There's no Klingons off Mercury's starboard bow."

Submission + - Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Thursday December 08, 2011 @03:25PM

Trailrunner7 writes: Officials at Cnet's Download.com site have issued a statement apologizing for bundling the popular open source Nmap security audit application with adware that installed a toolbar and changed users' search engine to Microsoft properties. Fyodor, the author of Nmap, raised the issue earlier this week, saying that his app was being wrapped in malware on Download.com.

It's not unusual for download sites to bundle free applications with some kind of adware or toolbar, but the creators of open-source applications take a dim view of this practice, given the nature and ethic of open source projects. Nmap is a venerable and widely used tool for mapping networks and performing security audits and Fyodor wrote in a message to an Nmap mailing list earlier this week that Download.com, which is part of Cnet, a subsidiary of CBS Interactive, was bundling the application with its installer, which, if a user agreed, would install a search toolbar and change the user's search engine to Bing.

Submission + - Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

quantr

on Thursday December 08, 2011 @03:06PM

quantr writes: ""he US government has effectively admitted that it totally screwed up and falsely seized & censored a non-infringing domain of a popular blog, having falsely claimed that it was taking part in criminal copyright infringement. Then, after trying to hide behind a totally secretive court process with absolutely no due process whatsoever (in fact, not even serving papers on the lawyer for the site or providing timely notifications — or providing any documents at all), for over a year, the government has finally realized it couldn't hide any more and has given up, and returned the domain name to its original owner. If you ever wanted to understand why ICE's domain seizures violate the law — and why SOPA and PROTECT IP are almost certainly unconstitutional — look no further than what happened in this case. ""

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