WED Fan - Slashdot User

Submission + - Apple and Jobs Could be Enron

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on Thursday December 28, 2006 @12:56AM

WED Fan writes: "The Financial Times is reporting that Steve Jobs received a boatload of options, with no authorization from the board, and the meeting minutes were falsified.
Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, was handed 7.5m stock options in 2001 without the required authorisation from the company's board of directors, according to people familiar with the matter...Records that purported to show a full board meeting had taken place to approve Mr Jobs' remuneration, as required by Apple's procedures, were later falsified.

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Submission + - Next Gen Development: OSS?

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on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @10:47AM

WED Fan writes: "I'm the king of knowing exactly where my organization's project flaws are. Not what's wrong with the project, its whats wrong with the project process. I know exactly what it is and why it will never change.

Now comes the question: In the multi-national world, with project teams becoming more distributed, do project managers need to start looking at how OSS projects work?

But, we've all seen those horrid OSS projects that dissintegrate as well. Anyone remember FreeDows? Or, the OSS projects that deliver slower than a Duke Nukem Forever Into Eternity Until You Get the Next Version, or StarFlight III?

So, who has the best model for managing a widely distributed OSS project that could be used as a template for corporate development?"

Submission + - UN: Man is Less the Cause

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on Sunday December 10, 2006 @08:57PM

WED Fan writes: "The UN is set to publish a report that man's impact on the climate has been over estimated. Blaming cows more that cars.

Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.

While man has an affect on his local environment, clean air and water, climate change is starting to look more like a cycle.

However, man, through the UN, can focus energies on things we can control such as hunger, poverty, and disease. Unless we squander voter energy and goodwill on tilting at the stuff we can only marginally control. If we attack the problems of the third world, they will improve their environment and things will start to clean up, continuing to improve their standard of living and improve the world and so forth."

Submission + - Missing CNetter May Have Over-Trusted Tech

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on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @03:37PM

WED Fan writes: "The Register Guard has a background story about what may have led the Kims into getting trapped in the snow, despite these signs they may be in danger.

In news accounts, rescuers have said the Kims, who had been visiting family and friends in Seattle and Portland and wanted to visit the coast on their way home, missed the Highway 42 turnoff just south of Roseburg and found the less-used Bear Camp Road on a map — possibly from an online mapping service.
In fact, despite its impassable snowdrifts and single-lane, Bear Camp Road is offered as the preferred route on some Web sites and on-board-directions software available on some new cars.
Yahoo and MapQuest offer Highways 199 and 101 as the preferred route. However, a Google map search suggests the Bear Camp route.

As an aside: Do we, as nerd, techies, and geeks, put too much trust in technology? If its on the Web, is it true?"

Submission + - Senate Looks into Warming Hype

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on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @03:38PM

WED Fan writes: "The Washington Times is reporting that U.S. Senate hearings will look into the media and hype regarding "Climate Change".

From the article:
Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican and chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, will hold a full committee hearing tomorrow on "Climate Change and the Media."

The hearing will look at how the media has presented scientific evidence regarding predictions of human-caused catastrophic global warming, the senator's office said.

"Senator Inhofe believes that poorly conceived policy decisions will result from the media's nonstop hyping of 'extreme scenarios' and dire climate predictions," said committee Communications Director Marc Morano.
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Submission + - When eBay Attacks

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on Thursday November 30, 2006 @03:38PM

WED Fan writes: "An Oregon man just ran afoul of eBay, who has sent out a "cease and desist from using the company trademark name in his Web address". His crime is registering and operating a web site called GoToDepoeBay.com.

I wonder if the folks in Mobile, AL have had a similar problem?"

Submission + - Open Source Projector Retails

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on Sunday November 19, 2006 @02:49PM

WED Fan writes: "Yes, we've heard from these guys before but, now the really cool guys and contributors at Lumenlab, the home of the open source projector, is now selling the Evo V1 projector, based on the best of designs that users built and submitted. The really cool thing is it has features that more expensive systems don't have, and it is inexpensive, and even less expensive to keep running. The replacement lamps are only $30US.

You can buy it, or buy parts and build your own."

Submission + - U.S. Space

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on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @10:26AM

WED Fan writes: "President Bush is asserting a U.S. claim on space. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. is reserving the right to deny access to any nation that has hostile intent against the U.S."

Submission + - Avoid License Bite

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on Sunday September 10, 2006 @12:11PM

WED Fan writes: "I ran across this post at Geeks With Blogs about choosing the right license. The blogger, a developer, hadn't put much thought choosing a license, all he knew was that he wanted it to be open.
Recently I was contacted by someone who wanted to use the project in his commercial application. I don't have any problems with that of what soever. However this person reported that lawyers on his company had some problems with our licence. Apparently he wanted to embed the library directly in his application (by using ILMerge) but for some reason this is against the rules of LGPL. I wasn't aware of that and my intention wasn't to forbid anyone doing so.

Considering there are tons are lawyers looking at different licenses, what would be the best license to get past corporate legal?"

Submission + - Biofuel Production Will Cause Water Shortages

Submitted by on Sunday August 20, 2006 @11:03PM

WED Fan writes: From the Nothing-Is-Without-Impact Dept.: Scientists meeting in Stockholm are reporting that increased food and biofuel production will place higher demand upon irrigation and water resources. There will always be an impact, no matter the fuel, whether its politics, weather, war, or other influences, as long as we are demanding it, its going to cost and cause problems. When the next dust bowl hits, do we want to be reliant upon CROPS?

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