Comment Re:Finally Government Transparency (Score 1) 83
In other news ... the CIA has been renamed "The Ministry for Information Sharing."
This is a double-plus good change.
Comment Re:Do the same with a handful of transistors (Score 1) 96
Hell, I'd be surprised if 2% of
BBROYGBVGW - For political correctness, I won't share the mnemonic I used 30 years ago. Now get off my lawn.
Comment Just like my coding (Score 3) 325
I do the same thing.
I write 15 times as much code by not bothering to fix the mistakes.
Submission + - Astroturfing on Slashdot? (penguinpetes.com)
walterbyrd writes: There's something about late spring that seems to bring the corporate asstroturf out of the woodwork (oops, I made a "Freudian typo" there!). College graduation is coming up after all, with all those fresh new students hitting the market and becoming truly adult consumers for the first time. Gotta get ready for them. Today's front page of Slashdot brings us not one, not two, but three examples.
Submission + - Former TSA Administrator Speaks (wsj.com)
phantomfive writes: Former TSA head Kip Hawley talks about the TSA:
"it's simply no longer the case that killing a few people on board a plane could lead to a hijacking. Never again will a terrorist be able to breach the cockpit simply with a box cutter or a knife. The cockpit doors have been reinforced, and passengers, flight crews and air marshals would intervene.
I wanted to reduce the amount of time that officers spent searching for low-risk objects, but politics intervened at every turn. Lighters were untouchable, having been banned by an act of Congress. And despite the radically reduced risk that knives and box cutters presented in the post-9/11 world, allowing them back on board was considered too emotionally charged for the American public.
I wanted to reduce the amount of time that officers spent searching for low-risk objects, but politics intervened at every turn. Lighters were untouchable, having been banned by an act of Congress. And despite the radically reduced risk that knives and box cutters presented in the post-9/11 world, allowing them back on board was considered too emotionally charged for the American public.
Comment Re:Privelege (Score 1) 482
A meta-cop bit my moose
Comment Re:Don't let users score their own tasks (Score 1) 304
And the people who understand the ref and could have modded me 'funny' wasted their points on troll-bashing. Ironic.
Comment Re:Don't let users score their own tasks (Score 4, Funny) 304
That won't work - most of the feature requests would be about GreatBunzinni.
Submission + - NASA Releases High Definition Image Of Earth From (nasa.gov)
klchoward writes: "Working for NOAA I have been really pleased to see the weather data from the new Suomi NPP satellite coming into our computer models already but have been blown away by it's capability to take stunning high definition images of our planet. See the article at Huffington Post or go straight to the image at NASA's website."
Submission + - Legality Of ACTA In U.S. Questioned In Petition (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt reports that a petition on the US Government's We the People website raises the question of whether ACTA is enforcable as an executive agreement — which allows the President to sign the agreement without getting approval — when it covers intellectual property, which is the mandate of Congress, and would require a vote before it becomes a treaty.
Slashdot has previously covered Senator Wyden questioning the constitutionality of ACTA before its signing last year; while the EU is said to be signing ACTA into force from today.
Slashdot has previously covered Senator Wyden questioning the constitutionality of ACTA before its signing last year; while the EU is said to be signing ACTA into force from today.
Submission + - XKCD Webcomic Reaches 1000 Milestone
jcreus writes: With the last comic, xkcd has reached the kilocomic milestone. Still, as the webcomic says, some comics left for the first kibicomic! xkcd is probably the best-known geek webcomic, referenced so many times on Slashdot.
Comment Ken Welcomes New Overlords (Score 1) 3
Hat tip to Ken, for welcoming our new Computer Overlords in his final jeopardy answer.
Submission + - Watson Wins (bloomberg.com) 3
NicknamesAreStupid writes: The word is in, Watson beats the two best Jeopardy players. Sure, it cost IBM four years and millions of dollars and requires a room full of hardware. In thirty years it will all fit in your pocket and cost $19.99. Resistance is futile; you will be trivialized.
Submission + - US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites (torrentfreak.com) 1
Chaonici writes: Last Friday, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized ten websites accused of selling counterfeit goods or trafficking in child pornography. However, in the process, about 84,000 unrelated websites were taken offline when the government mistakenly seized the domain of a large DNS provider, FreeDNS. By now, the mistake has been corrected and most of the websites' domains again point to the sites themselves, rather than an intimidating domain seizure image. In a press release, the DHS praised themselves for taking down those ten websites, but completely failed to acknowledge their massive blunder.
Submission + - American Students Were Never Really That Smart (theatlanticwire.com)
morphage writes: A report states that 'the US performance on PISA has been flat to slightly upward since the test's inception and it has improved on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, another major series of tests, since 1995'.
