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Submission + - Google Maps-to-Panoramio links broken

Submitted by thered2001 on Monday December 21, 2009 @01:05PM

thered2001 writes: The link between maps.google.com and the photo hosting website Panoramio.com seems to be broken. Wikipedia links also seem to be down. The linking is enabled by choosing the "Photos" and "Wikipedia" options in the "More..." popup. The condition seems to have begun Saturday evening. Hard to imagine something like this being down for more than 24 hours!

Comment This might have saved... (Score 1) 83

by thered2001 on Monday November 30, 2009 @08:01PM (#30277344) Attached to: Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers

...Neal Stephenson a trip. Does the site contain any papers about the benefits of drinking mercury?

Comment I sincerely wish... (Score 1) 4

by thered2001 on Monday November 30, 2009 @06:37PM (#30276154) Attached to: Africa's Albino Exodus

...that I had the money and time to mount a posse of albino hunter hunters. Killing would be too good for these hunters.

Comment Varley's meat trees... (Score 1) 820

by thered2001 on Monday November 30, 2009 @06:09PM (#30275642) Attached to: Scientists Create Artificial Meat

...can't be too far off. Let's hope he isn't right about the Invaders.

Comment I don't believe it (Score 1) 297

by thered2001 on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:30AM (#29910059) Attached to: Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine

I highly doubt that "engine" in the photo in the article is real. It looks like some sort of industrial fluid control device onto which they painted the radiation symbol. Or maybe some sci-fi set piece they bought off of a Hollywood back lot.

Comment Re:I guess this article had its intended effect... (Score 1) 762

by thered2001 on Monday October 19, 2009 @03:20PM (#29798339) Attached to: Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA

This was covered in Car & Driver a couple months ago (before it passed.) At the time, I seem to recall it was only going to be required for dark-colored cars. Or was it that dark-colored cars were also going to be banned or surcharged? (Damn, it sucks to get old and have an afternoon vodka-drinking habit.)

Comment I'm getting old (Score 2, Funny) 297

by thered2001 on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:14PM (#29761723) Attached to: China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day

After reading the headline, I thought China was doing harm to my favorite book publisher. "How could they be a threat to China?" I wondered. "Sure some of their books are thought-provoking, but really!"

Comment "The main problem" (Score 1) 11

by thered2001 on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:09PM (#29761667) Attached to: Stockholm's Bunny-Fueled Heating Plant

Yes, it's shocking they're not dealing with the main problem: shrubberies. Or rabbits with an appetite. Clearly the Swedish government needs to either, (a) rip all the greenery from the Stockholm parks and public areas in a preemptive strike (resulting in lots of starved rabbit carcasses for fuel) or, (b) set up a research program to develop rabbits which don't eat. I think it's obvious which would be best and benefit all mankind...but will they have the nerve?

Comment This is when... (Score 1) 332

by thered2001 on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @01:26PM (#29733981) Attached to: High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids

...we find out we aren't all exactly running 60 HZ after all.

Submission + - Sveasoft Domain Dissappears

Submitted by mache on Monday October 12, 2009 @01:01PM

mache writes: After an absence of forum postings by sole owner and head developer James Ewing since early September, the Sveasoft domain now points to a GoDaddy.com parking notification — http://www.sveasoft.com/ . While subscribers were increasingly concerned about Ewing's absence, this new development increases the gravity of the situation and concern for the future of the Talisman firmware release. Sveasoft develops Wi-Fi router firmware for selected Linux-based routers including ones from ASUS, Belkin, Buffalo Technology, Linksys, and Netgear. For more information about Sveasoft visit the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveasoft.

Submission + - Funtoo to replace GPL with MS-PL (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Funtoo (Created by Daniel Robbins, the founder of the Gentoo Foundation, and the Gentoo Linux Distribution) will embrace the 3-clause BSDL, and the OSI-Approved MS-Pl (Microsoft Public License). Daniel was at one point employed by Microsoft to help them understand Open Source. Good, bad, ugly, it doesn't matter, World War 3 will begin below shortly.

Submission + - Intel caught cheating in 3DMark benchmark (techreport.com) 3

Submitted by EconolineCrush on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:32PM

EconolineCrush writes: 3DMark Vantage developer Futuremark has clear guidelines for what sort of driver optimizations are permitted with its graphics benchmark. Intel's current Windows 7 drivers appear to be in direct violation, offloading the graphics workload onto the CPU to artificially inflate scores for the company's integrated graphics chipsets. The Tech Report lays out the evidence, along with Intel's response, and illustrates that 3DMark scores don't necessarily track with game performance, anyway.

Submission + - Is working for the gambling industry a black mark? 5

Submitted by on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm a recent university graduate. I and have been offered a software developer position in a company that supplies software to the gambling and betting industry. At first I was very excited about the opportunity. However, a few of my friends have told me that working for the gambling industry will put a permanent black mark on my career as a software developer. I don't know that many people in the industry with experience in hiring. Google has not helped in any way. And everybody else I ask doesn't know. So I'm asking slashdot. In your experience is this true? When you hire developers, is the fact that they worked for a gambling company a big turn off? Also, I'm currently in the UK, but would like the freedom of working in US or somewhere else later on in life. So experience from anywhere in the world is welcome.

Submission + - Chessboxing Storming the Athletic World

Submitted by samzenpus on Monday October 12, 2009 @11:43AM

samzenpus writes: Have you been craving an athletic competition that combines the raw physical energy of a chess match and the cognitive discipline of boxing? Crave no more. Chessboxing is here. No really, Chessboxing. As the name suggests, Chessboxing combines rounds of chess alternating with rounds of boxing. If there is no winner after 11 rounds, the match is awarded to the fighter with the most points in the boxing ring. Dutch artist, Iepe Rubingh, created chessboxing in 2003. He says, "I got the idea from a Serbian comic. It looked great. I wanted to see if it would work."

Submission + - Apple vs. Microsoft: Top 20 Stolen OS Ideas (infoworld.com) 2

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday October 12, 2009 @11:15AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's John Rizzo chronicles the 20 most significant ideas and features Microsoft and Apple have stolen from each other in the lead up to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. 'Some features were stolen so long ago that they've become part of the computing landscape, and it's difficult to remember who invented what.' Windows 7's Task Bar and Aero Peek come to mind as clear appropriations of Mac OS X's Dock and Exposé. Apple's cloning of the Windows address bar in 2007's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the path bar is another obvious 'inspiration.' But the borrowing goes deeper, Rizzo writes, providing a screenshot tour of Microsoft's biggest grabs from Mac OS X and Apple's most significant appropriations of Windows OS ideas and functionality."

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