douglips - Slashdot User

Comment Full Nuclear Catastrophe? From a centrifuge? (Score 4, Insightful) 281

by douglips on Sunday December 11, 2011 @03:23AM (#38333022) Attached to: Was Russia Behind Stuxnet?

Centrifuges can't cause a catastrophe, other than of the "oh shit my centrifuge just came apart and shredded my lab" kind. There is not a nuclear chain reaction to go out of control here.

Submission + - The GCHQ Challenge hasn't been solved... completel (jgc.org)

Submitted by

JohnGrahamCumming

on Monday December 05, 2011 @09:06AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "It's been reported that the GCHQ code challenge has been solved and 'complete' solutions posted on the web, but there's more to it than meets the eye. There's a whole block of undecrypted data just waiting to be examined."

Submission + - GE Color Effects Christmas lights get hacked into (jgc.org)

Submitted by

JohnGrahamCumming

on Monday November 07, 2011 @06:50AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Unable to resist a string of programmable Christmas lights I cut them up and built and 7x7 color display from them. The string is controlled by an Arduino Pro and hidden in a picture frame."

Comment Re:D'Addario (Score 5, Informative) 299

by douglips on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:08AM (#34936156) Attached to: The Companies Who Support Censoring the Internet

Ernie Ball also went totally Microsoft free after the BSA screwed them for $100,000:
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html

Comment It'll never work (Score 1) 147

by douglips on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @12:42PM (#34187348) Attached to: Construction On Spaceship Factory Set To Begin In the Mojave

They can't be serious. Leading experts agree they must first build a SpaceshipFactoryProvider.

Submission + - The 100-year leap (oreilly.com)

Submitted by

JohnGrahamCumming

on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @06:27AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "In 1837 Charles Babbage laid down plans for a general purpose digital computer with memory, a CPU, a printer and a plotter. Now there a project afoot to actual build the massive steam-powered machine."

Comment Re:Can get even worse (Score 2, Informative) 486

by douglips on Monday October 04, 2010 @11:52AM (#33784664) Attached to: The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms

Committed:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421316/

Comment Re:I'm all for it (Score 4, Informative) 832

by douglips on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:54AM (#33627782) Attached to: Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities

Cooking recipes can be patented. Copyright != patent.

Comment Re:That's what China says (Score 2, Informative) 177

by douglips on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @11:42AM (#32978614) Attached to: China Says Google Pledged To Obey Censorship Demands

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html

Comment Re:Well, MagicJack succeeded in (Score 3, Funny) 148

by douglips on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @04:17AM (#31256726) Attached to: Magicjack Loses Legal Attack Against Boing Boing

Waste of time, really. All you have to do to get a BoingBoing post taken down is to somehow link the story to the words "Violet Blue."

Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses 173

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @02:12AM from the terrible-terrible-games dept.

drroman22 writes "Schools are working to put real-world relevance into computer science education by integrating video game development into traditional CS courses. Quoting: 'Many CS educators recognized and took advantage of younger generations' familiarity and interests for computer video games and integrate related contents into their introductory programming courses. Because these are the first courses students encounter, they build excitement and enthusiasm for our discipline. ... Much of this work reported resounding successes with drastically increased enrollments and student successes. Based on these results, it is well recognized that integrating computer gaming into CS1 and CS2 (CS1/2) courses, the first programming courses students encounter, is a promising strategy for recruiting and retaining potential students." While a focus on games may help stir interest, it seems as though game development studios are as yet unimpressed by most game-related college courses. To those who have taken such courses or considered hiring those who have: what has your experience been?

Comment Ralsky's the guy that Slashdot spammed... (Score 5, Informative) 328

by douglips on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @01:07PM (#30215654) Attached to: Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker

He took it right in the ass. It was beautiful.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227

Comment Congress has limited power... (Score 1) 645

by douglips on Sunday November 22, 2009 @12:10PM (#30193942) Attached to: Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance

There is only so much Congress can do to effect change in Canada...

Comment Re:Reading glasses are not a universl fix. (Score 1) 549

by douglips on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @03:45AM (#30126730) Attached to: Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors?

Separate pair of glasses that are monofocals. When you are sitting at your desk you only need to see the display, and the glasses can be optimally tuned for this. You just put the bifocals on the desk and pick up the reading glasses when you sit down, and switch when you stand up.

If you don't want to buy the $5 pair at Walgreens I'm sure your optician will be happy to sell you a $200 pair that is exactly right for you.

Comment Re:DD-WRT is not opensource! (Score 1) 225

by douglips on Saturday July 25, 2009 @02:57AM (#28816607) Attached to: Critical Flaw Discovered In DD-WRT

I loved DD-WRT, and was saddened to see this exploit and the controversy. The exploit is definitely worth jumping ship for, and it took me 40 minutes to install tomato and get my configuration right. And that's only because I'm drunk.

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