Comment Outdoor Roomba + Kinect (Score 1) 140
add a bit of duct tape and a loud horn
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can some of us get together and rebuild this community? 21
wbr1 writes: It seems abundantly clear now that Dice and the SlashBeta designers do not care one whit about the community here. They do not care about rolling in crapware into sourceforge installers. In short, the only thing that talks to them is money and stupid ideas.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 10
rueger writes: A fair question that is on many people's minds. Given that the beta site is proving incredibly unpopular, what Slash-replacements are out there?
Comment Re:More importantly (Score 1) 1293
That's not purple, it's Octarine
Comment Re:That's a country with low food standards (Score 1) 709
Comment In my country this already exists (Score 1) 678
In my country(.ar) marriage is defined as between two consenting adults. A year or so ago we grew up enough as a society to stop listening to the religious nutjobbery, we had a long debate and as a result the marriage law was changed. And there was much rejoicing amongst gay men and women, and amongst heterosexual supporters of the right to marry whoever the fuck you love(like me and my fiancee).
Let me tell you: heaven hasn't fallen down on our heads, the rivers fail to flow red and no frogs have been raining lately. It's not such a big deal, if you are grown up enough...
Comment Re:Another Big Announcement (Score 2) 227
And I'm revealing my plans for world domination with an army of supermodels.
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Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Comment Wow... (Score 4, Interesting) 132
VP of litigation?
just... wow...
Comment Re:next: find how their queue grows after being cu (Score 1) 105
Spanish, probably. "Tail" and "queue" both translate to "cola"
Comment Re:It's because (Score 1) 442
(...)thought it was the most bloated, expensive, sluggish, over-engineered, counter-intuitive source control system I've ever had the misfortune to use. It's performance was so network bound that it was practically unusable outside of the same LAN as the server
Clearly you haven't yet had the pleasure of "working" with Borland Starteam.
I still wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while...
Comment Re:It's because (Score 1) 442
Accurev does it, and makes it look easy.
A couple of years ago I was release mgr for a major US airline(two-vowel carrier code, same vowels) which uses Accurev for *all* its SCM. I don't remember the exact size of the storage set, but it was way bigger than 50GB and Accurev had absolutely no issues with that.
Not affiliated in any way with Accurev, just a satisfied user.
Submission + - Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated (sciencedaily.com)
redwolfe7707 writes: "Scientists at UC,Santa Barbara in the US in collaboration with the U of Konstanz in
Germany have developed techniques to use diamond films for quantum storage."
Germany have developed techniques to use diamond films for quantum storage."
Submission + - How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? (infoworld.com) 1
snydeq writes: "The fact that Oracle has handed over the keys to two major open source projects in recent weeks has some questioning the fate of other prominent open source projects Oracle took on in the wake of its 2010 acquisition of Sun. But while OpenOffice.org and Hudson provided little commercial opportunity for Oracle, it appears that Oracle has plans to keep rein on NetBeans, MySQL, and GlassFish contrary to expectations, analysts contend."
Submission + - Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 (spreadthunderbird.com)
supersloshy writes: Mozilla has released the latest version of Thunderbird, their popular email client, now in sync with their new rapid-release versioning system. Among the new features are the new add-ons manager from Firefox 4, revised account creation, faster response times, the ability to load plugins in RSS feeds and over 390 platform fixes. For more information, read the release notes
Submission + - Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors (net-security.org) 2
Orome1 writes: SANS and Mitre have released the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list for 2011. Isn't it sad to see SQL Injection at number one?
