Ace905 - Slashdot User

Submission + - The Goat's Birthday

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on Monday May 21, 2007 @10:58PM

Ace905 writes: "The infamous goat-see web site turns 10 years old today (Tuesday May 22, 2007). While links to the 'notorious shock site' have been the bane of slashdot's existence — it none the less has become an iconic folk-hero of the web in the last 10 years its been online. Its history is long and diverse, with numerous hidden references and tributes in games and G-rated copycats paying tribute to the site the world over. So while we can censor a link to the actual site, let us toast its success in shocking us repeatedly for the past 10 years."

Submission + - Vimeo Admits Falling Short Of Competition

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on Monday May 21, 2007 @04:12PM

Ace905 writes: "Prettybored blogger Wes Clark recently wrote a scathing review of Vimeo — the Video Clip Sharing Community Site made famous by the talents of 'Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld'. Vimeo's own Jakob Lodwick was quick to respond, admitting that Vimeo falls short of its competitors and is suffering from a lack of staff.

The entire article with Jakob's response is available by clicking here."

Submission + - Vimeo Responds to Harsh Criticism

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on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @07:04PM

Ace905 writes: "Jakob Lodwick of Vimeo responds to a private bloggers article on the flaws of Vimeo for sharing video clips. The article is very critical of Vimeo's ability to stand out from the competition, and points out that their most popular producers have chosen Vimeo only because they work for them, or are being promoted by the company. The article is available by clicking here."

Submission + - Vimeo Gets Harsh Scrutiny

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on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @01:12PM

Ace905 writes: "A small time blog has recently scrutinized Vimeo's entire structure and future as a video-sharing site. While this wouldn't normally be newsworthy, Vimeo's own Jakob Lodwick responds — admitting that Vimeo has been understaffed and falls short of established sites like YouTube and Break.com. The article criticizes that Vimeo's best spokespeople are attracted to the site solely due to Vimeo's aggressive promotion of their clips, not because it has anything better to offer the general members."

Submission + - Scientists Expose Weak DNA in HIV

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on Saturday February 17, 2007 @05:24AM

Ace905 writes: "The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced Thursday that they had discovered a very promising, "weak spot" in the HIV Virus. The HIV virus, a progenitor to full blown "Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome" or AIDS has eluded all attempts at a vaccine since it was discovered sometime in the 1970's. The major problem with developing a vaccine initially was isolating the virus. Conventional viruses are often defeated with existing drugs, or after being tested against new compounds. HIV has been unique, and staggering in it's ability to resist all attempts at treatment by mutating its' own genetic code. HIV is able to resist, with great effectiveness, any drug or combination drug-therapy that is used against it.

So far, our best efforts have been slowing down progression of the disease — but the number of people infected every year is rising and victims are estimated at 1.4 Million in North American alone, last year. Discovering a chain of vulnerable DNA on the HIV virus gives researchers a very exact target that can not resist damage."

Submission + - Developing Web Sites to Identify Browser's Country

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on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @12:01PM

Ace905 writes: "I have a question that seems pretty simple, but time and again I've had looong discussions with other web developers relating to this topic. Nobody really seems to have a good answer.

How do you make your web site identify a browser's country? I'm doing a custom shopping cart application for a company and google doesn't give me any very good results. It would be best to _not rely_ on a pay service that does origin ID's based on IP — because this isn't worth a recurring subscription to my client. If an organization made this information publicly available I could code my own lookup database, even if it took 10 hours to complete.

The problem isn't the cost, it's that my client can't justify a recurring-cost for what this provides to them ; and I don't want to be called back in six months or a year to change _my code_ because the proprietary software or web-based protocol for doing these lookups has changed on the providers end.

Any ideas on how to do this yourself? Is there a publicly available database of IP assignments to various ISPs by country?"

Submission + - Squaring With The Magic Triangle

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on Sunday February 04, 2007 @01:31AM

Ace905 writes: "Looking through some archives, I came across a recent article on 'How to Square With A Magic Triangle'. Although the topic sounds a little dry at first, I can't count the number of times I've had a very real and practical need to square-something in my house, or the office. From The Article itself, " There are thousands of reasons why you would have to square-something, [...] ex: You're buying a new house, and you want to check how straight the walls are ". I've found this _so useful_ with furniture, hanging pictures — it even inspired an algorithm I needed to create for a java based game. So I'm presenting the article here for all you slashdotter's to peruse. I find a little how-to once in a while is a nice break from the news blurbs on product releases, and *yawn* Vista."

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