Comment Re:Here's a few... (Score 1) 315
These are both good. I'd mod up if I could.
Comment Spamhaus should add a site for $3 donation (Score 2) 156
If they created a site where people could donate $3 to them, I wonder how many people would contribute?
Comment Re:float (Score 1) 222
That was the direction of my thinking as well.
Comment Re:Uh, first things first (Score 1) 444
Echoing that this everything else is irrelevant until this is known.
Comment Re:It is curious... (Score 1) 764
To take your excellent idea on profiling and expand it. Maybe Amazon found that dealing with government requests about those books was too expensive, and thus chose to stop selling them so they would have fewer government requests to deal with?
Comment Re:My kingdom for a Newton! (Score 1) 606
Small quibble: The force does not have to be applied to the air. Rockets work fine without air, and the same could, in theory work.
There must be an equal and opposite force on the craft.
Air just makes the most sense given the current technology.
Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew 58
pickens writes "Erik Hayden writes in the Atlantic that children will see endearing portraits of Chewbacca rendered in the style of "Winnie-the-Pooh" in the book of drawings "Wookie the Chew," a tribute to the combined genius of George Lucas, A.A.Milne and E.H.Sheppard, by artist James Hance released on September 1st. Samples from the book are available at Hance's web site. Hance bases his right to parody Winnie-the-Pooh on Fair Use as parody under which certain uses of copyrighted works, which would otherwise be considered infringing, are permissible. Interestingly enough, the rights to the original Winnie-the-Pooh were the subject of an 18-year feud in which Walt Disney corporation fought off a challenge to its ownership of the rights ending in 2009 when a judge in Los Angeles struck out a claim against Disney lodged by the family of Stephen Slesinger, a comic book pioneer who bought the copyright to Pooh in 1930 from the bear's British creator, A.A. Milne. Stories of Pooh's adventures were originally created by Milne in the 1920s, based on a toy bear owned by the author's son, Christopher Robin."
Comment Re:Just ... (Score 1) 308
Usually under the various stickers are the screws that you need to take out to get at the magnets. Usually a torx bit is required.
The chisel, etc is often useful for getting at the magnets once you have opened the case.
The shape that I saw in my drives was kidney bean shaped.
Malware Targets Shortcut Flaw In Windows, SCADA 214
tsu doh nimh writes "Anti-virus researchers have discovered a new strain of malicious software that spreads via USB drives and takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles '.lnk' or shortcut files. Belarus-based VirusBlokAda discovered malware that includes rootkit functionality to hide the malware, and the rootkit drivers appear to be digitally signed by Realtek Semiconductor, a legitimate hi-tech company. In a further wrinkle, independent researcher Frank Boldewin found that the complexity and stealth of this malware may be due to the fact that it is targeting SCADA systems, or those designed for controlling large, complex and distributed control networks, such as those used at power and manufacturing plants. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it's investigating claims that this malware exploits a new vulnerability in Windows."
Comment Re:It helps Netflix to end Saturday delivery (Score 1) 504
My understanding is that the cost for delivery/handling of single movie is on order of 80 cents. With a customer base of tens of millions, cutting one movie a month out of the delivery cycle could have a significant impact on the bottom line.
Comment It helps Netflix to end Saturday delivery (Score 5, Insightful) 504
If there are fewer delivery days in a month, then you get fewer movies per month if you turn them around every other day. This would help Netflix's bottom line to cut delivery down to 5 days a week.
Comment Re:Practicality (Score 2, Interesting) 251
I agree that you want to have your team working together. But what about the idea of "come up with you you think this should work". By coming at it from different perspectives there are more possibilities to come up with something interesting.
Ideally you could blend the best ideas from both. That said, in many ways this isn't practical from today's business perspective, where resources are so thin, that you can barely get one fully staffed team.
Comment Re:CC (Score 1) 467
I was going back to school to become a teacher. In so doing I had to take a Trig course. I did so online from my local community college. It really refreshed my math skills (that were ~20 years old).
Keep in mind I had taken through Series and Diff Eq. in college, so I had mastered the material previously. (Don't ask why I needed trig. in spite of having had the upper level courses. Just a magic hoop to jump through).
-Chris
Comment Re:Of course not. (Score 1) 338
But what if my code is compiling, I'm running an import script, and checking code into source control as I answer the poll? Could I be "working" in that case?
Also, there are studies that distractions from tasks help creativity. If your consciousness is distracted, but you sub-conscious is working on the problem, are you working?
Any company that pays me to answer slashdot polls also is probably paying me to click on Google Adsense web sites to drive up revenue.
Not sure I would want that job. Pay may not be the best.
Nmap 5.20 Released 36
ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. '"
