AslanTheMentat - Slashdot User

Comment Re:AskSlashdot: "Please Do My Work For Me" (Score 1) 286

by AslanTheMentat on Friday July 25, 2008 @02:45PM (#24339295) Attached to: Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking?

Many of the Slashdotters actually pay for the opportunity to, among other things, answer questions like that.

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As a proud BOFH (of which I would presume there are equally as many that would "pay to answer [stupid] questions"), I would immediately direct him to MS Word (which does have such brain-dead change tracking) in order to make the suffering more enjoyable for me to watch...*devilish grin*

Submission + - Pastor with 666 tatoo claims to be God

Submitted by

acgrissom

on Monday February 19, 2007 @06:17PM

acgrissom writes: "This is strange. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, a pastor with 666 tattooed on his arm, claims to be the new Christ. His followers, of which there are thousands, in dozens of countries, also get these tattoos. He says, "Antichrist is the best person in the world."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/miami.preacher/in dex.html"

Submission + - The Bane of Forced Obsolescence

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @06:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Everyone hates being forced to upgrade when they don't want to. Especially when it's the hardware or software company forcing them to upgrade. This article discusses some of the reasons behind this, suggestions for changes, and calls for both hardware and software companies to start changing in ways that the customers want, not just what the investors and managers demand or dictate.

Submission + - Wanna be great surgeon? Start playing video games

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday February 19, 2007 @05:56PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Surgeons with video game skill appear to perform better than non-gamers, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery," the authors conclude. "Video games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons.""

Submission + - Hollywood training swedish police in Anti-Piracy

Submitted by

Oxygen

on Monday February 19, 2007 @05:54PM

Oxygen writes: "IDG.se reports on it's online newssite that representatives from the MPAA, FBI and the Swedish lobbyorganisation Antipiratbyrån have held seminars for swedish police officers (Swedish only) that are being trained in fighting piracy and copyright violations. From the article: "According to Bertil Ramsell, responsible for the course, the purpose of the visit was to give the invited speakers a chance to explain to the students what their organsation's purpose was. But in a report from the IIPA, the pupose was to educate students in anti-piracy." Educating is one thing, but the acronym MPAA doesn't really spell "objective" or "no hidden agenda" to me."

Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time 210

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19, 2007 @05:49PM from the go-go-gadget-hand dept.

[TheBORG] writes "There are two stories on Yahoo! News about regrowing lost body parts. One is about regrowing lost fingers & limbs and the other one is about regrowing teeth. The story about regrowing lost fingers and limbs talks about the experimental use of powdered pig bladder to regrow fingers and eventually lost limbs for soldiers and others in need from information that Pentagon-funded scientists hopefully learn from studying the salamander. The story about regrowing teeth talks about how Japanese scientists used primitive cells and injected them into a framework of collagen. Once grown to a certain point, scientists implanted the growths into mice where the teeth developed normally."

Submission + - Level 1 Web Browsers...

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @05:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: Looks like Microsoft are defining Browsers as either Level 1 or 2 with Level 1 being the superior browser consisting of guess which browsers...! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sha repoint/techinfo/sysreqs.mspx

XM And SIRIUS Radio Merging 301

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19, 2007 @05:07PM from the monopoly-is-such-a-fun-game dept.

lenny6998 writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that XM and Sirius Radio, the only two major players in the relatively new market of subscription satellite radio have announced a merger. "The two companies said in a statement that Mel Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius, would become chief executive of the new company while Gary Parsons, the chairman of XM, would remain in that role."

Submission + - Taming Mustang, Part 1: Collections API

Submitted by nitsudima on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:35PM

nitsudima writes: Mustang (also known as Java Standard Edition 6) has arrived. This latest Java 2 platform from Sun Microsystems is overflowing with new and enhanced APIs. Jeff Friesen presents the first of a three-part series on Mustang, focusing on enhancements made to the Collections API, where you discover new Collections interfaces and classes.

Submission + - US trains new ELITE Swedish anti-piracy policeunit

Submitted by soulxtc on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:18PM

soulxtc writes: Never one to let its interests anywhere in the world go unprotected, the FBI and the MPAA have teamed up with the Swedish govt to create an elite corps of Swedish anti-piracy police. In an effort to help stamp out pesky Swedish pirates, FBI agent Andrew Myers and the MPAA have given a group of six Swedish police officers extensive training on how to effectively combat piracy and catch people who engage in illegal downloading from the internet.

Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges 876

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:13PM from the turnabout-isn't-fair-play dept.

a_nonamiss writes "A Georgia couple, apparently tired of people speeding past their house, installed a camera and radar gun on their property. After it was installed, they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit. They brought this to the attention of the local police department, and are now being forced to appear in front of a judge to answer to charges of stalking."

Submission + - BBC launches Space Shuttle based on car

Submitted by

David Off

on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:10PM

David Off writes: "Last summer BBC Television decided to launch a space shuttle shaped motorcar, the Reliant Robin, into very very low earth orbit! Now this may not be the X-prize but it is a very very cool hack that harks back to era of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club. Now a shuttle launch costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The Beeb built a very convincing shuttle from the Robin, a main fuel tank and two SRBs in an industrial unit in Manchester. There was very little money but all the tea the team could manage to dring. The rockets develop 8.5 tonnes of thrust and this was the most powerful private launch in Europe to date. The Robin had to be stripped from 750kg to 250kg and avionics fitted for the flight back to earth. All doesn't quite go to plan as you can see in the 20 minute film which was broadcast yesterday. It would be nice to know more about the tech behind the launch, the film is thin on details."

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