thrillbert - Slashdot User

Comment G+ is the future.. (Score 1) 200

by thrillbert on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @02:08PM (#36962480) Attached to: Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?

G+ is to the internet, what Yellowstone Park was to the U.S. in 1872. A beautiful landscape where people could meet, relax and enjoy the serenity.

Recently I used this example to tell friends about G+ and compared FB to an amusement park akin Disneyland where you had to pay $45 to enter the park, $5 for a coke, $15 for a picture of you and about $200 for lunch for you, your wife and 2 kids.

On the other hand, you have G+ that is not being built to hijack your information, sell you targeted items based on your 'likes and dislikes' or anything of the sort. It is truly a social network.

Whether that makes it a cathedral or a bazaar, I don't know. What I do know is that I left FB and I'm not looking back.

Comment Great idea!!! (Score 1) 248

by thrillbert on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:02PM (#36452480) Attached to: EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools

Because banning handguns worked so well, as we all know.

Comment Back in my day... (Score 1) 96

by thrillbert on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @11:23AM (#33587652) Attached to: Google CEO Confirms Social Integration

Social sites were called channels.. it wasn't a single entity that controlled everything, it wasn't monetized. It was called IRC.. the difference until mIRC came around was that you had to do everything through a command line.. which for the most part kept the dummies out of my social networks, +++ATH0 took care of the rest. :)

Comment Facebook's future CEO (Score 1) 247

by thrillbert on Thursday May 20, 2010 @01:26PM (#32281936) Attached to: Facebook CEO Accused of Securities Fraud

I hear Darl is really good at claiming stuff is his when it really isn't..

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment Meanwhile in a cave in Afghanistan.... (Score 1) 332

by thrillbert on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:02PM (#30159952) Attached to: Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General"

Osama bin laden says "hahahaha! Those stupid western infidels are more worried about catching 14yo Billy Johnson than they are of catching me or my 18 virgins! I knew that buying stock in the world wide movie industry would pay off.. now, you, child of allah, did you get my copy of the movie 2012 from Mandelson???"

Comment Who actually cares about the "good" ratings? (Score 5, Insightful) 217

by Rabbitt on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @06:34PM (#29193837) Attached to: Gaming the App Store

Personally, I find the 0 - 3 star ratings more telling about an app than the 4 or 5 star (fanboy) ratings. In general, when I want to find out about a product, I like to read the negative to moderate reviews because they seem to be more honest about potential problems. What do you guys think/do?

Parrots Can Dance 104

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 01, 2009 @11:46AM from the elephants-too dept.

juuri sends in an NPR article about the consensus created among scientists that some birds actually dance to music. "The results of this study are reported in the journal Current Biology, along with another scientific paper inspired by YouTube videos of dancing animals. Adena Schachner is a graduate student in the psychology department of Harvard University. She says she was familiar with the idea that some people had made videos of birds supposedly dancing. ... She and her colleagues eventually analyzed more than 5,000 videos. 'Imagine watching YouTube eight hours a day for a month,' she says. 'That's pretty much what we did. It was amusing for perhaps the first couple of hours.'" juuri adds, "While this makes them somewhat unique in the animal world, as only three animals are now known to dance by verifiable proofs, what struck me more was that this was the first time YouTube had helped forge a new scientific understanding. Given the explosive growth of uploading videos and people watching them, what other new understandings and popular misconceptions will be proven or disproved due to this emerging media?"

Wikipedia Opts Out Of Phorm 98

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 16, 2009 @06:31PM from the phorm-of-their-objection dept.

ais523 writes "Wikipedia (and other websites run by Wikimedia) have requested to opt-out from Phorm; according to the email they sent, they 'consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' behavior by a third party to be an infringement on their privacy.'" Another reader points to this post on techblog.wikimedia.org which includes a confirmation from Phorm that those sites will be excluded.

Comment Our Economy... (Score 1) 2369

by thrillbert on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @10:59AM (#25555199) Attached to: Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy

I don't know why you guys are making such a big deal about this because "The fundamentals of our economy are strong."

Man Proposes to Girlfriend Through Bejeweled 6

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @01:07PM

Firmly cementing himself as the Don Juan of all nerdom, Bernie Peng reprogrammed his girlfriend's copy of Bejeweled so that a marriage proposal popped up when she reached a certain score. She giggle-snorted, pushed up her broken glasses and said yes.

Comment Re:Mr. Bob Carter - Puppet, or "the Real Thing" ? (Score 1) 1496

by Rabbitt on Thursday June 15, 2006 @09:12PM (#15545588) Attached to: Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming

heh - Read a bit deeper next time as I actually did attack the content ;-) Moral: If the person can't be trusted to give unbiased information, than the information can't be trusted to be unbiased ;-) Cheers!, :-) -- Carl

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) 216

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 20, 2006 @09:05AM from the take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side dept.

anadgouda writes "Mozilla Firefox 2.0 alpha is released. The links for download were not available directly on Mozilla.com website. Being Alpha, all features might not work and most of the plugins might not be compatible." Reading thru the comments, it appears there's some disparity as to whether or not this is actually just a naming scheme that they use; but let me reiterate that there has been no official announcement from Mozilla, so take with a giant grain of salt. Some good screenshots at OSdir.

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