Comment Re:bandwidth used (Score 2) 273
And Verizon just sold all that FiOS, DSL and landline business to Frontier.
The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally 703
jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own Colbert Nation.'"
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242
likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."
Comment Dixie Flag (Score -1, Troll) 625
And yet here in the US we still allow the Dixie Flag to be flown. Once you have lost the war you should not be able to continue using your flag.
Comment Re:Miles * weight is what they want, so tax gasoli (Score 1) 792
Because everybody and their dog in Portland is/has been buying a Prius (or other hybrid), and the State isn't getting what it used to from the gas tax. Of course our vehicle registration fee is a joke compared to our neighbors to the North (the State of Washington).
Comment Re:Paper ballots (Score 0) 175
What about if:
1) When you go to vote, you are given the *option* of entering a long string
2) Your votes are tied to this long string
3) After counting is complete, county posts a public list of each long string that voted for each option/candidate
4) Voter can verify their string appears for each of their votes
It's optional, it's public, it can be verified. My long string could be something like "zamboni1138_wammalammadingdong". Probably would not conflict with anyone else in my voting area, or my county or even my state. And if it did, maybe on my printed receipt it could print my long string and kindly tell me I'm now "zamboni1138_wammalammadingdong (2)" or something. I personally don't care if people know how I vote and I think I should have the option of it being public.
I'll just toss that out there.
Comment Re:That Analogy Falls Apart (Score 1) 917
I know where you're going with this, and I couldn't be more excited. "Mars Dust", "The Red Bang", "God of War", "Red Dust", "Crystal Red"... Sure it costs $10M a hit, but holy shit, you'll feel like you're on Mars. Then the Asian and Mexican gangs will get involved, take over the "business", and suddenly we'll have a drug war in space.
Comment Re:I Only Use Slashdot Anyway (Score 1) 398
You mean PDT, right? 9:18 PST = 10:18 PDT
Comment Numbers? (Score 3, Funny) 414
So roughly $2.9M per turbine. Does that include shipping? Probably not. How long until I get a positive return on my investment? 10 years, 20? Come on man, I've got my bank on the other line.
Comment Re:So search for sex,the natural way (Score 1) 355
Speedo Jefferson, makes Jefferson D'Arcy look like a chump.
Comment Re:Millenium 2 (Score 5, Informative) 297
Are you sure that's right?
I thought it was:
Windows NT 4 = Windows NT 4
Windows 2000 = Windows NT 5
Windows XP = Windows NT 5.1
Windows Vista = Windows NT 6
Windows 7 = Windows NT 6.1
Comment Re:Some Math (Score 1) 300
I had this same attack happen on our company's PBX about five years ago. The CLEC providing us Internet and voice (Integra Telecom, worst phone company ever) forgot to put a password on the admin account of the voice mail box. One day MCI fraud calls us about the $10,000 bill we had racked up over the weekend. Because we had multiple voice channels (seven at the time) the attackers could place three outbound calls at the same time, which easily came to over 6,000 minutes in just two days.
Submission + - NORAD's Santa Tracking Goes Web 2.0 (noradsanta.org)
iluvcapra writes: NORAD Tracks Santa 2007, NORAD's perennial mission of tracking the progress of Santa's sleigh as he makes his yearly sortie, has gone Web 2.0 this year, including a Google Maps mashup showing Santa's current position on Earth (at time of submission, Keetmanshoop, Namibia), a KML link to let you track Santa on Google Earth, and plots and keyhole imagery on youtube.
My only question: When Santa crosses into the ADIZ, what does he set his squawk to?
My only question: When Santa crosses into the ADIZ, what does he set his squawk to?
Submission + - I never visit slashdot anymore. (rssresponse.com)
MSIncome writes: "RSS has for a long time been used in the realm of delivering news and basically was pretty useless. Things have changed a lot over time and now people are starting to use RSS in much wider formats. Delivery of sports results almost as fast as they happen, Cartoons, books by chapter, in fact the majority of sites are offering a feed or trying to.
This is simply because it saves a lot of time. Instead of having to go to your favorite sites only to see that nothing new has been posted you can now just go to one place, your RSS Reader, and see any updates. With full text feeds becoming much more popular many people may not directly visit web sites much any more.
With the recent acquisition of Feedburner by Google and many other corporates trying to get a portion of the RSS market it makes you wonder what do they know that we may not.
RSS is invading many of the traditional haunts. Even the latest offering by RSS Response, which is an RSS Autoresponder, is taking on the giant email autoresponder companies that are trying to mix their dying craft with RSS. http://rssresponder.com/
The question is not have you heard of RSS anymore but what feeds can we share.
I know even with Slashdot I am able to quickly scan the results and choose exactly where I want to go. Maybe one day they will also do full feeds and then I can read it all on my reader.
This is a revolution as many people now never actually visit the website as they simply read all the content in their reader.
Are you using RSS and do you actually come to the site?
Quentin
PS: I am writing this in my reader."
This is simply because it saves a lot of time. Instead of having to go to your favorite sites only to see that nothing new has been posted you can now just go to one place, your RSS Reader, and see any updates. With full text feeds becoming much more popular many people may not directly visit web sites much any more.
With the recent acquisition of Feedburner by Google and many other corporates trying to get a portion of the RSS market it makes you wonder what do they know that we may not.
RSS is invading many of the traditional haunts. Even the latest offering by RSS Response, which is an RSS Autoresponder, is taking on the giant email autoresponder companies that are trying to mix their dying craft with RSS. http://rssresponder.com/
The question is not have you heard of RSS anymore but what feeds can we share.
I know even with Slashdot I am able to quickly scan the results and choose exactly where I want to go. Maybe one day they will also do full feeds and then I can read it all on my reader.
This is a revolution as many people now never actually visit the website as they simply read all the content in their reader.
Are you using RSS and do you actually come to the site?
Quentin
PS: I am writing this in my reader."
Submission + - The Great Iraq Swindle
Drahgkar writes: Have you ever wondered where all the money the government has spent on the war in Iraq has gone? Wonder no more as you read The Great Iraq Swindle on Rolling Stone's website. "How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins — he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq."
