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Comment Stopped by Minneapolis Police on Nicollet Mall (Score 0) 308

Happened to me last month or two ago. I just wrote an article for Slashdot about my experience, but after trying to submit it now, I think I'm gonna publish it on Reddit. No offense, it's just Really Long & has a Great Deal of Unicode, which is necessary when you get surrounded by 12 cops on Nicollet Mall & are approached by the Forensics Lady putting on some Rubber Gloves for the next part of attempting to hassle me for not being a criminal but still having the nerve to have long hair & Bluetooth.

Submission + - Cyber Jousting Vector Monkeys Re-Create Optical Tweezers in Minecraft Forums (reddit.com)

dragonfly_blue writes: According to LASER_PEN on Reddit.com, the Slashdot team of Cyber Jousting Vector Monkeys have successfully recreated the long-desired & heretofore considered unobtainable Optical Tweezers in Minecraft. You can witness this for yourself in either the Minecraft forums themselves right here or you can watch without directly affecting the results in accordance to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle through the Dwarf Fortress Forums, as the story goes.

Submission + - Cannabis cures Crohn's Disease, finds study (nih.gov)

terrancem writes: The marijuana plant (Cannabis sativa) induced remissions in patients with Crohn's disease, according to a new study of 21 patients who hadn't previously responded to other forms of treatment. The study is published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Submission + - Seamless Channel Bonding (engadget.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Channel bonding over the Internet is a notoriously hard problem, with even the best tools in Linux just using round robin to combine identical connections. But that might be changing, as Connectify, the spook backed networking software company has announced new channel bonding software that claims to use bandwidth, latency and reliability metrics to perfectly bond any Internet connections together. Engadget has tried it and said their "test of the beta software on our end has worked seamlessly so far, requiring just a software installation and two or more internet connections (two ADSL lines in our case)."

Comment Postcard Chess : (Score 1) 2

Also, Bollywood-style musicals don't seem to move letterpress paper products the way they did when I was a kid.

Dubstep music also seems to have tapered off of late; perhaps another casualty of Adult Onset Short Attention Span Shadow Puppet Theater Disorder.

Fibre-channel remote booting off a hard drive in a data center you don't know about using Diamond Multimedia Power Line communications devices hidden in a desktop's actual Power Supply Unit still seems to be a fairly solid bet for technology that will stick around for a while.

Comment As long as I'm not using an IBM 3270... (Score 1) 1

...Terminal Adapter to have Macros available to me, me & my carpal tunnel & tendonitis & shooting pains will probably be satisfied. No matter *what* kind of bastardized remnant of w3c's weird RFC-cluttered Obfuscatathon is currently Remajiggering the Decombobulators, I'm actually pretty happy with them overall.

Still, ECMAscript->JavaScript->Weird_Asynchronous_Wormhole_Allowing_Full_Duplex_Suddenly does not a particular robust, str_cpy resistant, MitM-attack resistant language. Strongly typed, dynamically typed, wat.evar.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What Does The Free/Open Source Community Currently Need?

d33tah writes: "In the summer term of my final year of IT's bachelor's course in my university, every student is obliged to develop his own project; the only requirement is that the application would use any kind of a database. While others are thinking of another useless system for an imaginary company that nobody would actually use, I'd rather hack up something the FL/OSS community actually needs. The problem is — how to figure out what could it be?"

Submission + - Happy Swedish Fish Day!

dragonfly_blue writes: Just wanted to wish CmdrTaco, SarcastaBitch, Hemos, Jon Katz, et. al. a Very verrily Verrily Happy Hoppy Svedish Swedish Fish ( SANS lute ) Fisk Day!

- Jack Merlot

a.k.a. dragonfly_blue

a.k.a. Mark Beihoffer

Yours Truly,

Your Friendly Neighborhood ( BoF ) Systems Administrator

- Jack A. Merlot
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Girl Seeks Help On Facebook During Assault Screenshot-sm 417

A 12-year-old girl who was being assaulted by her mother's ex-boyfriend used some quick thinking by sending a message on her iPod to a friend's Facebook account for help. The friend was able to contact the girl's mother who then contacted the police. 42-year-old Raymond Ernest Cesmat was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. He is being held at the Dakota County Jail on $175,000 bail.

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