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Comment Remove this article (Score 0) 691

by JamesRing (#35480868) Attached to: Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Slashdot, you need to remove this article. The summary is incorrect, poorly written and does nothing but spread fear and confusion. It shouldn't pass even the most basic editorial checks. I find it pretty awful that it hasn't already been taken down given how many other people have pointed this out.
Japan

Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant 691

Posted by CmdrTaco from the good-luck-over-there-guys dept.
iamrmani was one of several people reporting updates on the Fukushima Nuclear plant that has been struggling following last Friday's disaster. A third explosion (Japanese) has been reported, along with other earlier information. MSNBC has a story about similiar reactors in the US. We also ran into a story which predicts that there won't be significant radiation. But already Japan is facing rolling blackouts, electricity rationing, evacuating the area around the plant, and thousands dead already.

Comment War? (Score 1) 206

by JamesRing (#34358560) Attached to: Who Will Win Control of the Web?
I hate the categorisation of companies providing competing products to consumers in a marketplace as "war". War is generally counter-productive and destructive, competition is necessary and healthy.

Comment Re:Fearmongering Bullshit... (Score 1) 60

by JamesRing (#33212208) Attached to: BBC Builds Smartphone Malware For Testing Purposes

Accidentally posted this anonymously, actually wanted to spend some karma on this one.

You are completely missing the point. The point is that it is feasible for an application that *does* appear to legitimately need these permissions (e.g. an improved SMS application, of which there are many). There is no way for the user to specify that the only SMS messages that can be sent are those ones that they wish to send, or that the OWNER_DATA permission should only be used to read data required for the application to do its job. The fact that it's just a tic-tac-toe application is beside the point, a more complicated application could claim to need these permissions and all kinds of users are going to trust that the application is not doing the wrong thing.

This is not "fearmongering bullshit", this is a legitimate concern for smartphones these days. I'm really confused why your comments got moderated up.
Software

Knuth Got It Wrong 298

Posted by kdawson from the to-be-or-not-to-be-heap dept.
davecb writes "Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again. Poul-Henning Kamp, in an article at ACM Queue, finds an off-by-ten error in btrees, because they fail to take virtual memory into account. And he solves the problem in the open source 'Varnish' HTTP accelerator, for all of us to see and use."
Image

Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times 106

Posted by samzenpus from the get-your-face-out-there dept.
Geoffrey.landis writes "Terry Southgate discovered that his wife Wendy appears on the Google Street View of his neighborhood not once or twice but a whopping 43 times. From the article: 'It seems as if the Street View car simply followed the same route as Wendy and Trixie. However, Wendy was a little suspicious that the car was doing something on the "tricksie" side. Several of the Street View shots show Wendy looking with some concern towards the car that was, well, to put it politely, crawling along the curb. "I didn't know what it was doing. It was just driving round very, very slowly," Wendy told the Sun.' The next best thing to being a movie star — a Street View star!"

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