Comment Forget the math... (Score 1) 981
Biologically, in this case, the chance is always 50%-50%!
Comment I only lie... (Score 1) 159
I only lie on slashdot polls!
Comment Old joke, but.... (Score 1) 129
All your smartphones are belong to us.
DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court 267
Hatta writes with a snippet from MaxConsole: "Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to."
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
The Setup Behind Microsoft.com 412
Toreo asesino writes "Jeff Alexander gives an insight into how Microsoft runs its main sites. Interesting details include having no firewall, having to manage 650 GB of IIS logs every day, and the use of their yet unreleased Windows Server 2008 in a production environment.
Submission + - Winamp will die AIMP comes to you
aleksaimp writes: "Winamp will die AIMP russian freeware media player comes to you
AIMP Classic v1.74 Test Released on 13.03.2007
AIMP program is a powerful audio centre.
Thanks to the built software, you can easily recoded with music from one format to another, record audio from a microphone or other audio devices to edit tags music files, as well as a group to rename or sort them. AIMP Classic based on the well-known audio engine BASS, you can easily connect plugins from the library to AIMP. Here you can find whatever they wanted from audio players, and even more ...
in the same English interface"
Submission + - SETI@Home is now the World's Fastest Supercomputer
jemecki writes: I was looking through the distributed computing statistics at BOINCstats today and I noticed that SETI@Home distributed computing grid just passed 280 TeraFLOPS in computing power. The reason this is so remarkable is that the fastest supercomputer in the world Blue Gene/L ALSO operates at a sustained 280 TeraFLOPS. So while governments are busy using their supercomputers to model bombs and nuclear weapons, the geeks have put together the world's fastest computer and they're using it to look for aliens. Awesome.
