Comment Re:Dear Dice.com (Score 1) 223
Perhaps screwing the pooch would be a better term.
Stop having sexual relations with my dog, damnit.
Comment Re:Stay classy ./ (Score 3, Funny) 223
I was looking for a way to mark "Slashdot Staff" as a foe...
Comment Dear Dice.com (Score 5, Interesting) 223
Have you ever read the story of the goose that laid the golden egg?
Submission + - Voting machine changes Obama vote to Romney (msnbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: And so it starts. An MSNBC news report shows a video of a voting machine changing an Obama vote into a Romney vote. The user who originally reported the issues says: "I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney’s name and started tapping very closely together to find the ‘active areas’."
Submission + - How will we vote on Election Day -- 2020? (foxnews.com) 1
Velcroman1 writes: With its telephone-based polls of homemakers, politicians stumping on the campaign trail, and the looming threat of hanging chads from paper ballots, the 2012 rumble between Romney and Obama felt almost archaic. That’s all about to change, however. Futurists, technology visionaries and science fiction authors posit some tremendous change, such that the election of 2020 — just eight short years off — will be largely unlike today’s. From campaigning to polling to the process of voting itself, the election 2020 will be different. No, we won’t have mind-controlled ballots or eyeball scanners for security. But we could have Facebook. “Everyday, cheap technologies—digital cameras—could form the basis for a relatively inexpensive system of voter identification,” wrote Charles Stewart III, a political scientist with MIT and a member of the Caltech / MIT Voting Technology Project. A Facebook of sorts, in other words, with the actual faces of voters and maintained by individual states to verify a person’s identity.
Submission + - First ever sighting of world's rarest whale on New Zealand coast (guardian.co.uk)
grrlscientist writes: "Two beached whales were identified as a rare species previously known only from a few scattered bones"
Comment Re:Better than Vancouver's party (Score 2) 47
St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the metro area, which is called Tampa Bay
From Wikipedia: "The Census Bureau currently estimates the population for the CMSA at 4,228,855 as of 2010 during consolidation.[3] as of July 1, 2008, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Florida and fourth in the Southeast."
Comment Re:Meetup? (Score 1) 47
You should come to one of the SLUG meetings or hacking sessions.
We have talks ranging from programming languages (especially new/interesting ones), robotics, war stories, etc. We have had some guest speakers in the past,
including the first person to setup a webserver in North America.
Disclosure: I've been a member for the last decade; and I'm also the president and meeting coordinator for the Pinellas meetings.
Comment Re:St. Petersburg (Score 3, Informative) 47
The city was named St. Petersburg by a Russian immigrant and railroad tycoon, Peter Demens (Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev, cyrillic: slashdot won't display)
Comment Re:Yes, there will be food! (Score 1) 5
I was also at that party, and I realize that I had been in a job interview (a successful one) two months prior with the parent poster. But I don't believe we talked at all during the /. party. Or even ran into each other. Or we did and I forgot.
I'm pretty sure I spent most of the evening envying my friend Tak's N700 "internet tablet".
