quixoticsycophant - Slashdot User

Comment Waiting for GPL V4 (Score 2, Insightful) 382

by asscroft on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @12:25AM (#20752025) Attached to: Survey Says GPLv3 Is Shunned

It doesn't seem fair to attack Microsoft with GPL V3 without also going after Google. Google gets to use GPL software without ever having to release source because they're not selling software, they're selling services. If Microsoft did that GPL V4 would come out faster than you can say Free Software.

Feed The Register: Queen's axe-man wins his PhD (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday August 24, 2007 @10:52AM

Viva put him under pressure

Queen guitarist Brian May will henceforth be known as Dr May, as the axe-slinger has finally been awarded his PhD.

Submission + - Mpeg2 Editing in Ubuntu Linux

Submitted by

Synchis

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @02:24PM

Synchis writes: "I've just switched from Windows to Ubuntu Linux (hooray!), but one of my hobbies is video editing. Is there a frame-level mpeg2 video editing package for linux that is reasonably fast and easy to use? Also, I would love to know what is the best package for authoring DVD's in linux. If I could get these last 2 applications, I would forever be rid of Windows. :)"

Submission + - Windows Vista's Built-in Rootkit

Submitted by iSeal on Monday May 14, 2007 @02:25PM

iSeal writes: A new vulnerability in Windows Vista has been found, whereby malicious software are able to use the permissions structure in Vista to create what amounts to being a rootkit. By creating dummy account with certain permissions, the malware is able to make itself invisible to the detection of anti-virus/spyware products.

Feed Eye Of The Hurricane Reveals A New Power Source (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday May 14, 2007 @02:12PM

In the eye of a furious hurricane, the weather is often quite calm and sunny. But new NASA research is providing clues about how the seemingly subtle movement of air within and around this region provides energy to keep this central "powerhouse" functioning.

Submission + - Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @04:49PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power — at least if you are a man — Austrian scientists suggest. When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.
Tinfoil condoms anyone? Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'"

Submission + - Spaceport America Takes Off

Submitted by

SeaDour

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @04:18PM

SeaDour writes: "Spaceport America, being built north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is finally becoming a reality and is set to become the world's first commercial spaceport. Governor Bill Richardson recently secured 33 million dollars from the state legislature for the final design, and a proposed 0.25% sales tax increase in Dona Ana County, where the facility is to be constructed, is expected to bring an additional 6.5 million dollars per year (if approved by voters next week). Richard Branson, the head of upstart Virgin Galactic, on Monday agreed to lease the facility for 27.5 million dollars over twenty years. If all continues to go as planned, SpaceShipTwo will make its first suborbital joy ride in two to three years."

Comment The reason for this is obvious: (Score 2, Insightful) 328

by quixoticsycophant on Sunday March 11, 2007 @02:44PM (#18308912) Attached to: New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet

Politics. Pandering to the idiot vote. For Astrology believers, the 'downgrading' of Pluto was a slap in the face, provoking those feelings of religious outrage which politicians love to exploit. Millions and millions of voters in New Mexico have some sort of belief in Astrology, ranging from slight interest to passionate conviction. Many of those votes have just been guaranteed to those legislators responsible for this bill.

Being enlightened slashdotters, most of us have little appreciation for how stupid people really are. I am here to say that yes, they are that stupid.

Comment Re:Fantastic (Score 5, Funny) 198

by kfg on Friday February 23, 2007 @05:05AM (#18120046) Attached to: New Details on Xerox Inkless Printer

"Excellent, some piece of technology that can magically make my problem go away without me expending any effort to try and actually solve it."

That's how we ended up with all these fucking computers in the first place.

KFG

Journal Journal: Spyware given seal of approval to be installed

Journal by smooth wombat on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:37PM

Just when you thought headway was being made against spyware, along comes TRUSTe which has certified the first ten applications that have passed the certification process for TRUSTe's Trusted Download Program.

From the press release:

Submission + - Finding Employee Numbers With Google

Submitted by

Voelspriet

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:32PM

Voelspriet writes: "It's not without faults, hey its even not up to date, but its there. The new command employees in Google shows you the ..number of employees of a certain company. So now you know that Yahoo has more overhead then Google and Lenovo is still smaller then IBM. Wikipedia is the source. Some numbers are from 2004 or even older. There are a lot of omissions, so dont try to look up Slashdots owner OSTG or Indian Railways. I expect this to be one of a long range of new niche commands in Google."

Submission + - Saddam Hussein Execution

Submitted by

Quaoar

on Saturday December 30, 2006 @03:07PM

Quaoar writes: "This is just a plea to the Slashdot editors to post any submission related to Saddam's execution so there might be an intelligent discussion about the topic. I think neglecting to post this story shows a lack of backbone. PLEASE post it. Thanks."

An Inconvenient Truth 1033

Posted by jamie on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @11:22AM from the conveniently-packaged dept.

There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today.

Broadcom's Treaty In the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD War 146

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 10, 2006 @02:08PM from the everyone-holding-hands dept.

eldavojohn writes "For a while there, I didn't know what to buy. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? Which would be the leader? Only a fool would buy discs of the technology that would be the next Betamax. Fortunately, my dilemma has been solved by Broadcom. From the article: 'Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. Thurs. (Nov. 9) introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.' I guess I'll just wait until I can get a player that will play them both."

Rumsfeld Stepping Down 899

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @02:41PM from the at-least-no-one-dropped-a-house-on-him dept.

macinrack writes to tell us that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon. Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.

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