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Comment Want t-shirt logo for banner (Score 1) 229

by Dr.Who (#41518437) Attached to: Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds

Is it possible to get the Slashdot's 15th Anniversary Shirt logo with black instead of white lettering, black instead of white lines, and a transparent background sized to fit a 11" * 17" paper? I would like to print a few as banners/signs for the Slashdot party.

n.b. Join me at Larkspur Landing Shopping Center on 2012-10-26T19:45-7

Comment Want t-shirt logo for banner (Score 3, Interesting) 46

by Dr.Who (#41494693) Attached to: Reminder: Slashdot Anniversary Meetups, Free T-Shirts

Is it possible to get the Slashdot's 15th Anniversary Shirt logo with black instead of white lettering, black instead of white lines, and a transparent background sized to fit a 11" * 17" paper? I would like to print a few as banners/signs for the Slashdot party.

n.b.Join me at Larkspur Landing Shopping Center on 2012-10-26T19:45-7

Comment Marin Brewing Company has good beer (Score 1) 1

by Dr.Who (#41494435) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Larkspur, CA, US

... so I have been told. I drink wine but not beer.

I thought that some of us could sit in Marin Brewing Company outside seating area. Others might want to buy food from Togos Eatery or one of the other restaurants http://marincountrymart.com/directory/dining and sit at one of the tables nearby, but outside the Marin Brewing Company seating area.

Larkspur Landing Shopping Center is across Sir Francis Drake Boulevard from the Golden Gate Ferry Larkspur Landing terminal. I think that this will be convenient for people commuting back from San Francisco on Friday night.

It would be feasible for someone in San Francisco to take the ferry to Larkspur Landing and walk to the shopping center. They could return to San Francisco on the 8:50 P.M. Ferry. To stay later they would have to find other arrangements. To take a Golden Gate Transit Bus they would need a ride to a bus stop. However it is a short walk to the Marin Airporter which would drop you off at the airport.

I tried to incorporate feedback Aftermath and meetup planning tips by kashani on a 10-year Slashdot anniversary party in San Francisco that I attended.
Privacy

Submission + - Password Protection Advice going mainstream (consumerreports.org) 1

Submitted by Dr.Who
Dr.Who writes: The January 2012 issue of Consumer Reports Magazine arrived yesterday. It contained:
"Hack-proof your passwords. Criminals are getting smarter. So should you."

A synopsis of the article already appeared in Tech Journal South: "Consumer Reports: Four tips for creating stronger passwords."
http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/12/consumer-reports-four-tips-for-creating-stronger-passwords/

Comment At first I thought that the headline was... (Score 1) 544

by Dr.Who (#36268654) Attached to: Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills

Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals His Personality Kills

Disclaimer: I have never met anyone named Mark Zuckerberg. I did see a popular movie featuring a character with that name. I have seen at least two television news clips describing something that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doing. So I know nothing about CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personality or eating habits.
Science

Submission + - Supercomputers Crack Sixty-Trillionth Binary Digit (energy.gov) 1

Submitted by Dr.Who
Dr.Who writes: According to http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2011/04/28/supercomputers-crack-sixty-trillionth-binary-digit-pi-squared, "a value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton." The article goes on to cite use of computationally complex algorithms to detect errors in computer hardware.

The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.

Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.

Submission + - Controlling Light with an Optical Event Horizon (aps.org)

Submitted by
lee1
lee1 writes: "Two German scientists have developed the theory for an all-optical transistor. In their words: 'This concept relies on cross-phase modulation between a signal and a control pulse. Other than previous approaches, the interaction length is extended by temporally locking control and the signal pulse in an optical event horizon, enabling continuous modification of the central wavelength, energy, and duration of a signal pulse by an up to sevenfold weaker control pulse.'"
Space

Submission + - The Densest Planet In The Universe (So Far) (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: Astronomers have found what may be the biggest rocky planet in the neighborhood.

The planet is called 55 Cancri e. It is 60 percent larger than the Earth, eight times as massive and orbits its star so fast that an entire year passes in less than a day.

It is about 8.57 times the mass of Earth, plus or minus about 0.64 Earth masses. That gives a density of about 10.9 grams per cubic centimeter, twice that of Earth, which averages about 5.5 grams. The surface gravity would be about 2.7 times that of Earth, comparable to what one would feel at the cloud tops of Jupiter.
Government

Submission + - DOJ: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by
itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "The Department of Justice has issued a scathing report [PDF] on the ineffectiveness of the FBI in investigating and countering cyber attacks. The shortcomings are partly attributed to lack of training and lack of communication, but the biggest issue is the allocation of effort. From the report:

Overall, we determined that in FY 2009 the FBI used 19 percent of its cyber agents on national security intrusion investigations, 31 percent to address criminal-based intrusions, and 41 percent to investigate online child pornography matters.

"
Security

Submission + - Mystery air crash blackbox found sans memory part (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Hopes that the ongoing undersea search of the Air France Flight 447 wreckage had yielded one of the key items investigators were looking for – the flight data recorder – were set back this week as the robot subs scouring the ocean floor found the box only to find its memory part missing."

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