Comment Re:PAF (Score 1) 292
Excellent tutorial, now let's move on to the Oxford comma.
Comment Re:Oh My... (Score 3, Insightful) 178
Dear God, I'm old.
Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked 334
Ponca City writes "The Telegraph reports that an online dating profile created by Julian Assange in 2006 has been unearthed from OKCupid disclosing that the WikiLeaks editor sought 'spirited, erotic' women 'from countries that have sustained political turmoil.' Writing under the pseudonym of British science fiction author Harry Harrison, Assange described himself as a 'passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual.' Assange said he was seeking a 'siren for [a] love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy' adding that he was 'directing a consuming, dangerous human rights project which is, as you might expect, male dominated' and added enigmatically: 'I am DANGER, ACHTUNG.' Among Assange's listed interests were the 'structure of reality' and 'chopping up human brains' – although he added the caveat '(neuroscience background)' lest the latter put off potential admirers. 'I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil,' Assange wrote. 'Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane. OK. Not only women!'"
Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 507
On BTTF.com, they use the prefix "Jigo", So I think it's a J...
Comment Re:"Agile", no -- "agile", yes (Score 1) 395
In my experience, the CYA document's biggest use is to provide a baseline for Change Requests (which are always billable) by a consulting company.
"We built what you signed off on. Now pay us a bunch more money, and we'll turn it into what you actually need. Oh, and we'll update our documentation for an additional fee".
Comment "Agile", no -- "agile", yes (Score 4, Interesting) 395
I've worked in 100% waterfall, and in good agile environments, and I've found the key is to keep things small-a "agile", not to concentrate on capital-a Agile. Some places embrace Agile as a process, and fill binders with process documentation around their Agile process - at which point it's no better than any other.
I think the key to success is summed up in this line from T3FA:
"Most teams are not adopting scrum, extreme programming, or another specific Agile approach, but are embracing agile as an ethos or philosophy and cherry-picking the best bits from many different process models to develop a formula unique to their own situation," according to the report.
Comment Re:Great Game (Score 1) 399
There is an aspect of Religion in the Social Policy "Piety". Items such as "Mandate of Heaven" and "Theocracy" are in there, and they affect your civilization's happiness and culture.
Comment Re:Glory hound (Score 4, Funny) 325
There is an identical review on Amazon that is attributed to the firm.
But did you read the OTHER review on Amazon?
"Super Principia Mathematica was better than my wedding, better than watching my first son born, better than the time I had sexual intercourse with an entire college cheerleading squad while high on peyote."
Comment Re:Quicksand... (Score 1) 6
I don't understand why... Quicksand footage is usually gritty and gripping!
Comment Re:Too close to the subject... (Score 2, Insightful) 396
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I'd suggest that you limit your email testing to either address you own, or else domains like "example.com" that are reserved for testing. Domains like asdf.com are routinely flooded with unsolicited email due to people using it as a bogus domain name. More importantly, by using real domain names while testing software, you risk inadvertently emailing sensitive data to somewhere it should not go!
Comment Re:Cremation Diamonds? (Score 1) 527
Yeah. It really is an interesting idea....
Comment But is is grizzly-proof? (Score 1) 83
I was hoping this guy had added new features to his suits...
Comment Dubious Utility (Score 1) 92
These guys have had The Urinal Game online for over a decade. And there are still a LOT of guys out there with no concept of Mens Room Etiquette.
Submission + - How safe is flying with Macgyver?
CyberDong writes: A friend of mine is flying soon, and we were discussing the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority packing list. The topic of Macgyver came up, and we started trying to think of ways that carry-on articles could be combined. For example, "cheese dunked in breast milk with razors, sealed in a container until the gas builds up and explodes across the room"? Or what could you do with air-activated hand warmers, 2 batteries, and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide?
What can more chemically talented Slashdotters find in the list that we should fear?
What can more chemically talented Slashdotters find in the list that we should fear?
Comment More credible if they included a 'seconds' hand. (Score 1) 287
So this says to me that global catastrophe is 20% less likely than it used to be, since they've moved it from 5 to 6 minutes... but still 14% more likely than when it was 7 minutes in 1947. How do they get such numbers? Seems like huge jumps in probability. I think they need a 'seconds' hand.
