Comment Gameboy Survives Bombing, Still Works (Score 1) 279
Now just buy a bunch of those link cables and code a few apps on those and you're good to go.
Submission + - Death sentence in Chinese anti-virus bribery case (sophos.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: A high-up Chinese government official, who took over 2 million dollars in bribes, has been given a suspended death sentence in a case which shows the bitter rivalry between rival anti-virus firms in the country.
Yu Bing, a former director of Internet monitoring department of the Ministry of Public Security, is said to have received bribes from a number of firms including 4.2 million yuan ($630,000) from leading Chinese anti-virus firm Rising. His firm sent out public warnings about malware, telling users to install Rising's product.
According to media reports, Yu pleaded guilty earlier this year to all charges of bribery charges and also fabricating evidence to frame Tian Yakui, a Vice President at Chinese anti-virus firm Micropoint, who used to work for Rising.
Tian spent 11 months in prison on the charges, before being released without charge, and his company said it lost over 30 million yuan (US$4.39 million) as a result of the action.
Micropoint is reported to be planning to launch a lawsuit seeking compensation for losses caused by the defamation. In the past, Rising has denied claims that it framed its competitor.
Yu Bing, a former director of Internet monitoring department of the Ministry of Public Security, is said to have received bribes from a number of firms including 4.2 million yuan ($630,000) from leading Chinese anti-virus firm Rising. His firm sent out public warnings about malware, telling users to install Rising's product.
According to media reports, Yu pleaded guilty earlier this year to all charges of bribery charges and also fabricating evidence to frame Tian Yakui, a Vice President at Chinese anti-virus firm Micropoint, who used to work for Rising.
Tian spent 11 months in prison on the charges, before being released without charge, and his company said it lost over 30 million yuan (US$4.39 million) as a result of the action.
Micropoint is reported to be planning to launch a lawsuit seeking compensation for losses caused by the defamation. In the past, Rising has denied claims that it framed its competitor.
Submission + - Sir Maurice Wilkes, early programming pioneer dies (twitter.com) 1
EricTheRed writes: Sir Maurice Wilkes — one of the early programming pioneers of the 1940's has died.
The National Museum Of Computing based at Bletchley Park announced on their twitter feed earlier:
http://twitter.com/#!/tnmoc/status/9283716039843841
Sad news that today Sir Maurice Wilkes passed away, aged 97. Here he was on a visit last year to #TNMOC http://ow.ly/3gUD2
from the article covering his visit to TNMON last year:
Born in 1913, Sir Maurice has been at the forefront of many post-1945 computing developments and even today, at the age of 96, maintains a keen interest and is an avid user of email and the Internet. Sir Maurice’s contributions to computing history have included the development of EDSAC, the first practical stored program computer begun in 1946, and co-authoring the first book on computer programming in 1951. His proposals for micro-programming have been widely adopted in the industry and in 1965 he published the first paper on cache memories. A co-designer, in the late 1970s, of the Cambridge Ring, a pioneering client-server system, Sir Maurice went on to work in industry on both sides of the Atlantic and in 2002 returned to the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge where he is an emeritus professor.
The National Museum Of Computing based at Bletchley Park announced on their twitter feed earlier:
http://twitter.com/#!/tnmoc/status/9283716039843841
Sad news that today Sir Maurice Wilkes passed away, aged 97. Here he was on a visit last year to #TNMOC http://ow.ly/3gUD2
from the article covering his visit to TNMON last year:
Born in 1913, Sir Maurice has been at the forefront of many post-1945 computing developments and even today, at the age of 96, maintains a keen interest and is an avid user of email and the Internet. Sir Maurice’s contributions to computing history have included the development of EDSAC, the first practical stored program computer begun in 1946, and co-authoring the first book on computer programming in 1951. His proposals for micro-programming have been widely adopted in the industry and in 1965 he published the first paper on cache memories. A co-designer, in the late 1970s, of the Cambridge Ring, a pioneering client-server system, Sir Maurice went on to work in industry on both sides of the Atlantic and in 2002 returned to the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge where he is an emeritus professor.
Comment Re:I, for one, welcome our new IPv6 overlords (Score 1) 282
The only solution is to outsource a massive number of programmers and rewrite the software..
FTFY?
Comment ls history (Score 3, Informative) 136
According to this there are 5 files that start with "ls".
Except for ls.c, all those files have only one entry on their history. The "initial revision" on 1993-06-16.
On the other hand, you can check the history of ls by yourself. Ignoring a "build" commit done on 2010-09-18 (and by the same guy who did the "initial revision" ones), the last commit is from 2010-07-01 with the message header of "ls: use the POSIX date style when the locale does not specify one".
While not extremely important, it does show that ls keeps receiving updates to this day.
Comment Re:The Most Dangerous Tool (Score 1) 142
Comment Coming soon (Score 1) 324
"He knows the rules. Do you? An introduction to Rickroll"
Comment Re:Ok you've got my attention (Score 3, Insightful) 136
I checked to see if parent's post had 140 characters.
I was not dissapointed.
I was not dissapointed.
Comment Re:More Pictures at BookTwo (Score 1) 96
I'm quite sure Wikipedia will give a skewed image of the past compared to what people actually thought.
That's why I only trust slashdot's editors.
Comment Size of Wikipedia in volumes (Score 1) 153
Just as a comparison, Wikipedia could apparently fill 1424 volumes,
Also this appears to be the result of printing the longest 2500 articles of Wikipedia.
Comment Easy (Score 1) 602
[1]> (format nil "~r shillings only." 1234567890)
output: "one billion, two hundred and thirty-four million, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety shillings only."
(Sorry, but you did say "old" man
You can also do this:
[2]> (defun replace-old-man-with-simple-lisp-function (shillings) (format nil "~r shillings only." shillings))
output: REPLACE-OLD-MAN-WITH-SIMPLE-LISP-FUNCTION
[3]> (replace-old-man-with-simple-lisp-function 1234567890)
output: "one billion, two hundred and thirty-four million, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety shillings only."
Disclaimer: I'm still one of the youngsters, due to the fact that I'm still a student.
Comment Re:Isn't this just DRM in little pieces? (Score 1) 462
I believe GeoHot might disagree with you in that regard
Actually GeoHot quited a few days ago.
Comment The Egyptians did it first (Score 0, Offtopic) 267
Paper (at least according to Wikipedia
Comment Re:Theatrical Security (Score 2, Interesting) 285
For those of you who use Emacs, you can use M-x spook when composing email
(Or you can use it with twitter)
Example: terrorist Ft. Meade strategic supercomputer $400 million in gold bullion quiche Honduras BATF colonel Treasury domestic disruption SEAL Team 6 class struggle smuggle
Comment Re:Not just for Linux (Score 1) 210
You can use the OS module to try and abstract some of those problems. For example, os.mkdir() or os.chdir() always does the right thing, using the string os.sep (if I recall correctly, it's been a long time since I've last used it), although I've just noticed that os.chdir() only works on Unix and Windows, so I guess your point still stands.
