Comment Re:If you want a hideous layout... (Score 1) 1582
It's pants.
Comment Re:ARGH! Correction! (Score 1) 289
I'm sorry, but does nobody with mod points find this as funny as I did?
Submission + - Phone interview for my first programming job
An anonymous reader writes: So, I am a recent college drop-out, who had to move to another part of the country for family and financial reasons. I have applied to be an applications developer at a Fortune 500 company, who has their headquarters in the town I currently reside in. After submitting my resume, they called me a couple of weeks later asking me for a phone interview, which will take place early next week. Any advice, pitfalls to avoid, or general insights to the whole phone interview process? This will be my first "real" job, as well as my first programming job, if I get hired. Any thoughts or advice if I get the job?
Submission + - Microsoft Starts Hackers MSDN Blog. Wait, What? (blogspot.com)
Manu writes: Microsoft just launched a new blog on their MSDN network (their network for developers) for hackers. Microsoft, of course, hires "white hat" hackers to come and work for them by throwing money at "talent," and having them test Microsoft products for security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. (Something tells us they need to throw more money at this problem.) In any case, despite being called and aimed at hackers, who knows whether actual hackers will get any use out of this blog.
http://tech — info.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft-starts-hackers-msdn-blog-wait.html
Submission + - World of Warcraft Expansion Info Leaked
Tyrsenus writes: MMO-Champion is reporting that Germany's games rating board accidentally leaked the title of the second World of Warcraft expansion: "Wrath of the Lich King." Other sources confirm. It is believed that the expansion will open the icy continent of Northrend, where players last saw the Lich King in "The Frozen Throne." An official announcement is expected friday at Blizzard's second convention, Blizzcon.
Submission + - What the kids really think about kids' games (pocketgamer.co.uk)
marcellizot writes: "For a hobby that's supposedly childish, real child gamers have quite a hard time of it. When they're not having every avenue of fun scrutinised for nasties and bad influences, they're often being sold game ideas that were boring and old even when the adults of today were young. Pocket Gamer asks, what do kids really make of today's kids games?"
Submission + - Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB
An anonymous reader writes: Executable images created for the DOS/Wintel environment, using the GNU GCC compilers and language standards (but not linking to the Win32 API), are subject to failure (or performance degradation) when executed in Microsoft Windows Vista, because Vista arbitrarily restricts the memory space for the GCC executable to 32 MB (33,554,432 bytes). Attempts to allocate more memory than this using the malloc(...) function (or related functions, such as calloc(...)) will fail. This limitation applies whether the application is executed with the Run command, within a Command Prompt box (DOS box), or with the Start command. This limitation does not appear in Windows XP, Windows 98SE, or standalone DOS; the exact same executable, running under Windows XP SP2 or Win98SE, is capable of allocating several hundred megabytes of physical memory (if present on the machine). The limitation appears to apply to any compiler and linker not employing Microsoft's proprietary Win32 API.
Here is the complete story.
Here is the complete story.
Submission + - Firefox 3 0.5a to be Released Tomorrow
dteichman2 writes: "According to the Firefox 3 Schedule (page down at time of writing, Google cache), the code was frozen last night and the official release announcement for Gran Paradiso alpha 5 will take place tomorrow. Of course, since the code's frozen, it's all ready to go for you bleeding-edgers (Mozilla pub FTP). At first glance, it seems relatively stable... just don't click an extension link twice."
Submission + - Vigilante group wreaks havoc on LJ fandom
minkowski writes: "A mysterious group called Warriors for Innocence has approached Six Apart (the company which owns LiveJournal) demanding that certain journals and communities on LJ be terminated.
The common trait shared by many of these journals and communities is that they contain fanfiction slash and incest.
Of the blogs targeted for termination, most of them have been fandom related. The criteria for getting a journal deleted appears to be very broad. Many blogs have been deleted for merely mentioning the keyword "incest" in
the list of interests. A post on this LJ users blog
summarizes the rumors and accusations now flying between LJ users who feel betrayed — and Six Apart."
Submission + - Apple hides account info in DRM-free music
Mike writes: "Songs sold by the Apple iTunes store without DRM still have a user's full name and account e-mail embedded in them, reports Arstechnica. After examining the files Arstechnica noticed their names and e-mail addresses in the files, and they've found corroboration of the find at TUAW, The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Since the entertainment industry is obsessed with the idea of "casual piracy," or the occasional sharing of content between friends it see,s likely that this information will be used to keep tabs on who buys what, and more importantly, where it ends up. Although spoofing the data is trivial, shouldn't the idea that your account name and email address are contained in the files make you uneasy, to say the least?"
Submission + - CDW to be acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners LL
Justin Michael writes: Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, a private equity firm, has agreed to acquire CDW.
The price offered is a significant rise on the May 25 price and CDW stock is reacting to the news.
CDW sells via the Internet and retail stores, which distinguishes it from many of its Internet only or big-box only competitors.
CDW has done its own acquisitions, including Berbee Information Networks and MicroWarehouse.
Submission + - Putting Captcha's to good use.
Drewsk writes: "A story in CNN suggests that worldwide, we are wasting a total of 150,000 hours per day typing in the useless CAPTCHA's that webservers want in order to ensure we're humans and not robots. A new project underway, dubbed "reCAPTCHA" is an effort to put all that time to good use in much the same way that SETI likes to use our computer's spare time. In essence, all of the worlds books that are being scanned in to the Internet cannot all be read by OCR. Some have to be typed manually and others need passages clarified as words are unclear. The project wants to send those passages (words) out as Captcha's so we can all contribute to the world's online libraries... Read more."
Submission + - A Green Brick and the Mind Behind it
An anonymous reader writes: Popular Science is running a feature on Henry Liu, inventor of the fly ash brick. Though initially an accident, Liu's brick (made from the byproducts of coal-power plants) costs less and is more-environmentally friendly than its counterparts. Great timing, too, as the NSF just released a safety report noting that the brick not only pollutes less, but even manages to pull small amounts of toxic metals from the surrounding air. It's the type of seemingly small innovation that could very well revolutionize entire cities.
Submission + - Insecure Firefox Add-Ons Invite Browser Hijacking
An anonymous reader writes: Many makers of extensions or add-ons for Firefox are introducing ways for bad guys to hijack the Web browser, new research suggests. A great many add-ons are updated over insecure (non https:/// connections, providing an avenue for attackers to replace the extension with an evil update. From the story: "As a result, if an attacker were to hijack a public Wi-Fi hot spot at a coffeehouse or bookstore — a fairly trivial attack given the myriad free, point-and-click hacking tools available today — he could also intercept this update process and replace a Firefox add-on with a malicious one."
