Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
The Internet

Submission + - WikiSlashNews

Submitted by BlackShirt
BlackShirt writes: Could you imagine if instead of commenting slashdot users could rewrite an wiki article for the story subject.

Pro
There is tremendous knowledege that users have on various subjects
It could work on the same way as wiki news.

Con
It takes time and effort to attain certain certain editorial level (sci stories)
What would be the motivation for the readers?

What do you think?
Education

Submission + - Dating a girl who's had sex with lots of people (supremeforum.com)

Submitted by can_man098
can_man098 writes: Love & Personals — what is a guy to do when you meet a girl who's had sex with a lot men? What advice would give a person in such a situation. Here's a good way to help this guy cope with the amount of traffic his girl has had in between legs, poor guy.
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Top Ten Free Games of 2007 (midnightsynergy.com)

Submitted by
Midnight Synergy
Midnight Synergy writes: "With the season of big commercial game releases upon us, it is a great time to remember the many free, fun, inventive, and creative games that have been produced over the year.

To this end, Midnight Synergy has compiled a Top Ten Best Free Game Releases of 2007 . The list includes, among others, a surrealist adventure game, an island survival game, an educational puzzle game, and even an experimental sumo wrestling simulation. These games are virtually guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun on these cold winter nights (and are completely free).

To view the list and play the games, visit
http://www.midnightsynergy.com/topten2007

Notes:
1. The list was compiled based on coverage on major game websites and discussion boards, but as with any "Best Of" list, it contains a healthy dose of personal bias. This "Top Ten" concentrates on independent releases and does not include previously available commercial titles that have been re-released as freeware for promotional purposes.

2. We would be very interested in hearing feedback on this list. Which games do you think did not deserve the cut? Which ones did we miss?"
X

Submission + - Trying to disprove Humans have free will (myspace.com)

Submitted by
fantafob
fantafob writes: "In an attempt to prove Humans don't have free will I have unwillingly written this: Disproving free will is very difficult, and possibly impossible to conclusively prove. I think the major problem lies in the possibility that if it were proved, that would also open up the almost certainty that a God exists. And Humans like supernatural scenarios to be unproven — we found the Lock Ness Monster, it was a big Trout — Boring, lets keep it undiscovered. Lets try a simple experiment: Go and kill yourself! No? Is that because you don't want to die, or you don't actually have the free will to carry it through? The perception that you could kill yourself if you really wanted to is always in your mind, but at the critical moment could it actually be done? And if you did actually do it, maybe, and controversially, you were meant to do it. The movement you just made with your hand, you didn't actually do that knowingly, your subconscious mind did it. A subconscious that you have no control over. So our conscious mind is experiencing reality and a false perception of control over it, while our subconscious mind is actually doing what we have no control over. The mindless, drunken idiot in the pub is deliberately a mindless, drunken idiot because his place in the world is to be that. Part of your place was to read this. The wider implications are very controversial because it implies that criminals have no choice in what they have done. However, I am not implying that we are 100% controlled, we may have a little free will which is kept within a certain parameter, and kept from reaching outside the boundary by outside forces that we wouldn't even notice. How many of you believe in fate? Fate implies control. True randomness does not exist, only perceptions of random in a controlled environment. Unwillingly written by Fantafob"
The Media

Submission + - Paid Newspaper Readership Continue to Decline

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Paid circulation at major newspapers in the United States continued to decline this year with readership at 609 papers that filed on Sunday falling 3.5% to 46,771,486. Some major newspapers are doing much worse. For example, Sunday circulation at the New York Times and the LA Times fell 7.6% and 5.1% respectively this past year. so with their business model under extreme pressure, publishers have been whittling back on circulation considered to be less useful by advertisers and increasing their internet presence because ad revenue has been increasing. Online advertising now accounts for an average 5.5% of newspapers' total ad revenue and online profits margins have been skyrocketing worldwide with revenue projected to hit 10% of newspapers' total ad revenue by 2008-2009. Last week the NY Times provided an especially good example of how newspapers are tailoring their stories for the internet and figuring out innovative new ways to draw readers to their online offerings when they published a story by writer Tom Bissell on his climb up Mount Kilimanjaro and supplemented it with an Interactive Kilimanjaro Climb (flash) documenting Bissell's climb with 3D maps and video."
Businesses

IBM Predicts Massive Shifts In Advertising 135

Posted by kdawson from the adapt-or-die dept.
Tech.Luver writes with news from IBM Global Business Services about its new report, The End of Advertising as We Know It (report PDF, summary PDF). It forecasts greater disruption for the advertising industry in the next five years than has occurred over the previous 50. Among the conclusions: broadcasters will have to change their mass audience mind-set to cater to niche consumer segments. Distributors will need to deliver targeted, interactive advertising for a range of multimedia devices. Advertising agencies must become brokers of consumer insights and guide allocation of advertising dollars amid exploding choices. All players must adapt to a world where advertising inventory is increasingly bought and sold in open exchanges vs. traditional channels.
Java

An Open-Source Java Port To iPhone? 148

Posted by kdawson from the one-can-hope dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With the first anniversary of open-source Java coming up November 13, a Sun official believes the project could bear a fruit much sought-after in the Java community: a Java port to the Apple iPhone. Apple has not released a version of Java capable of running on the popular device. But Sun's Terrence Barr, technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community, believes Apple's plans to release an SDK for iPhone in early 2008 may result in the open-source phoneME version of Java ME winding up on iPhone."
The Internet

Submission + - Massive p2p raids in Hungary, 100 servers down (rlslog.net)

Submitted by
xxuaoxx
xxuaoxx writes: "A sad news came from Hungary, a country which seemed to be a very secure place in terms of peer to peer networks and filesharing. Hungarian police raided and confiscated over 100 servers, including scene top sites, private bittorrent trackers and warez forums. Affected sites include the biggest and most popular hungarian tracker bitHumen (30 000 registered users), release site nCore (which is already up though), trackers Bitlove, Independent, Moobs, Revolution and many other private FTP sites which had a connection with the scene.

full story can be read here[rlslog.net]"
Space

Submission + - X Prize Cup 2007

Submitted by Cally
Cally writes: Space.com reports that the X Prize Cup 2007 is now in progress, with several teams competing for the Lunar Lander Challenge — a vehicle must take-off, hover for three minutes (six for the second-level challenge), and then make a controlled vertical landing at a site several hundred meters from the launch pad. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, now down to only two vehicles after a last minute accident in testing, are in the running to take the prize.

Slashdot Top Deals

2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League

Close