Comment RTM (Score 2) 343
finally someone will Read The Manual
Comment Re:Don't count on it (Score 1) 1226
YOU CAN TEST EVOLUTION!!!!!
put yeast in a medium with high copper levels and after a few generations you get
copper resistant yeast
Comment evadojohn (Score 1) 463
i thought you (elvadojohn) left slashdot .
last i noticed you , you were complaining about the comment
system and took you ball and went home
Comment Re:Nothing is 100% secure. (Score 5, Informative) 154
never get involved in a land war in Asia
Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line
Comment success (Score 1) 280
the nuclear energy "success" continues!!!!!
Comment BF Gary (Score 1) 212
oh man , my BFF Gary is stepping down.
Comment Re:Based on the Cover..... (Score 0) 221
mod up, nice reference
Submission + - zimbabwe troubles were the Guardians fault (salon.com)
yoyoq writes: Sorry to all you people who like to blame Zimbabwe troubles on Wikileaks.
It appears that it was the Guardian that originally released the Tsvangirai/sanctions data.
You will have to find another dead horse to beat.
It appears that it was the Guardian that originally released the Tsvangirai/sanctions data.
You will have to find another dead horse to beat.
Submission + - Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Phoronix has performed benchmarks of all of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud instances using their Amazon Linux AMI distribution. They find Amazon's cloud platform to offer the best value for the money (just $0.034 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit) to be with the c1.xlarge EC2 instance."While it has less compute power than the m2.4xlarge instance (20 vs. 26 units), it costs less than half of what the quadruple extra large memory instance will cost. With that difference, you could purchase two c1.xlarge instances and have 40 EC2 Compute Units while still coming out financially ahead than the m2.4xlarge."
Submission + - Top recruiters call Columbia and MIT "second-tier" (chronicle.com)
__roo writes: Top job recruiters looking for recent grads consider MIT, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and other respected schools "second tier" and "just okay", according to a new Northwestern research study. Many only consider graduates from "Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or (maybe) Stanford" for jobs at prominent consulting firms, law firms, and banks.
Submission + - Microsoft slams Google over HTML5 video decision (networkworld.com) 2
jbrodkin writes: Microsoft is accusing Google of some heavy-handed tactics in the battle over HTML5 video standards. In an attempt at humor, a clearly peeved Microsoft official wrote "An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google," which likens Google's adoption of WebM instead of H.264 to an attempt to force a new language on the entire world. Internet Explorer 9, of course, supports the H.264 codec, while Google and Mozilla are backing WebM. The hyperlinks in Microsoft's blog post lead readers to data indicating that two-thirds of Web videos are using H.264, with about another 25% using Flash VP6. However, the data, from Encoding.com, was released before the launch of WebM last May. One pundit predicts the battle will lead to yet another "years-long standards format war."
Submission + - Gaming and Real Assassinations (wsj.com)
fermion writes: The Wall Street Journal has an article detailing the gaming life of Jared Lee Loughner. While it seems to avoid explicitly blaming gaming for the murders, it does appear to allude to a link. For instance "In the 7th grade, he and a friend, Alex Montanaro, began playing the multiplayer online games Starcraft and Diablo, which featured complex virtual worlds where players assume roles and play against other people around the globe, Mr. Montanaro said in emails over the weekend and Monday." Is the fact that he played a certain game in grade 7 in any relevant to his alleged shooting of a nine year old girl in 2011? The article further details his increasingly erratic online posting, which apparently inevitably leads to assassination. What is really depressing is that Education Week seems to make a directly link between utilizing online communication and expression of violent behavior.
Submission + - Microsoft Challenges Apple's App Store Trademark (crn.com)
cgriffin21 writes: Microsoft is challenging Apple’s efforts to trademark the term “app store,” arguing that the phrase is too generic for any one company to claim ownership. Apple sought to trademark “App Store” in a 2008 filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. That year Apple debuted the iPhone 3GS and launched its online App Store to provide a site for downloading applications for the smart phone.
Submission + - Optelian Migrates to Linux (slashdot.org)
doperative writes: The Linux Foundation announced that Optelian, a company that designs and manufactures optical transport systems that send data across optical fiber, successfully migrated to Linux link
Submission + - Chinese Anti-Piracy Blitz Hits the Web (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: China's clampdown on copyright infringers is moving away from the physical and into the digital domain.
TorrentFreak says that China is coming under increasing pressure from the US government and its Big Media puppet-masters to eradicate Internet sites which distribute unlicensed music and video.
Until now the campaign has concentrated on illicit outfits which distribute counterfeit DVDs and CDs, even going as far as conducting public burnings of disks seized, but now law enforcement agencies are turning their eyes towards the Internet.
In the last few weeks China says that 650,000 cops have made 4,000 arrests and are investigating 2,000 serious infringements. Is it just us or does sending 350 cops to investigate each case sound either unlikely or a little heavy handed?
TorrentFreak says that China is coming under increasing pressure from the US government and its Big Media puppet-masters to eradicate Internet sites which distribute unlicensed music and video.
Until now the campaign has concentrated on illicit outfits which distribute counterfeit DVDs and CDs, even going as far as conducting public burnings of disks seized, but now law enforcement agencies are turning their eyes towards the Internet.
In the last few weeks China says that 650,000 cops have made 4,000 arrests and are investigating 2,000 serious infringements. Is it just us or does sending 350 cops to investigate each case sound either unlikely or a little heavy handed?
