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Comment Re:What? (Score 3, Informative) 31

by radarjd on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:22PM (#40018013) Attached to: Interview With Ward Cunningham

What are they referring to here? This seems like a quote pulled out of context and now it makes no sense.

"It's only 40 lines, but every line carried some careful thought. "

Indeed it is taken totally out of context -- it's from pg 4 of the article, talking about a library called d3.js, which is apparently a library "to make things move on the screen"

Comment Re:Ah, the current law: the constitution (Score 1) 283

by radarjd on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @01:54PM (#28363893) Attached to: Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error

punitive damages ... if awarded go to the court, NOT the plaintiff.

In what jurisdiction are you speaking? In every place I'm aware of in the US the plaintiff does receive the damages.

Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? 409

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @06:07AM from the banking-on-future-research dept.

Maestro writes "There must be many parents (and soon-to-be parents) here at Slashdot. What are your thoughts on umbilical cord blood banking? This seems like a major question for our newborn; the question is almost as stressful for us as naming the baby. Given Obama's stance on stem cells, the topic is timely. My understanding is that while the current uses for cord blood are limited, the sky's the limit for the future of stem cell therapies. But with the initial cost over $1000, and ongoing yearly fees, is it worth it?"

Submission + - Peter Jackson to Produce 'The Hobbit'

Submitted by P3NIS_CLEAVER on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @01:21PM

P3NIS_CLEAVER writes: Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have buried the hatchet and have reached an agreement to share the proceeds with MGM. This is good news for us geeks who did not want to see the franchise ruined!

Submission + - Choose what to pay for Radiohead's new album (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Matt on Monday October 01, 2007 @11:06AM

Matt writes: Radiohead are offering their latest album as a download several weeks before the CD comes out, and you get to choose how much to pay. $1,000 or $0.00, it's entirely up to you. The band are free of a record contract for this, their seventh album, so are free to pursue as many wacky plans as they like.

Submission + - Kismac development discontinued due to German law. (kismac.de)

Submitted by BDaniels on Friday July 27, 2007 @03:01PM

BDaniels writes: Kismac is an excellent wireless sniffer app for OSX. The original developers announced today that they are ceasing development due to upcoming changes in German law that will make it illegal to possess this sort of 'hacking tool':

"German laws change and are being adapted for "better" protection against something politicians obviously do not understand. It will become illegal to develop, use or even posses KisMAC in this banana republic (backgound: the change of 202c StGB)."

They are asking for others outside Germany to take over the code and continue development.

Submission + - Global Warming Oppression Goes Both Ways (washingtontimes.com) 1

Submitted by

Reverend Darkness

on Friday July 27, 2007 @02:12PM

Reverend Darkness writes: "With all of the stories about climate change scientists being silenced by the Bush Administration comes an EPA investigation into a letter from the president of ACORE that threatens the career of a scientist who dares question the cause of climate change. From the article (in the Washington Times):

"It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar," Mr. Eckhart wrote. "If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."

... and it's not the first time he's made such threats."

Submission + - Historical Look At First Linux Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by LinuxFan on Thursday July 26, 2007 @04:59PM

LinuxFan writes: KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings.

Submission + - Benoit Murder on Wikipedia Before Publicly Known?

Submitted by on Thursday June 28, 2007 @03:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Fox News is reporting that the Wikipedia page for Chris Benoit was updated with information on his wife's death at least 13 hours before police found her body. According to Fox News, the IP where the edit came from is located in Stamford, CT, home of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Submission + - LightZone for Linux free

Submitted by

wolflarsen0

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:27PM

wolflarsen0 writes: "Like many companies, Light Crafts releases its flagship application — the RAW photo converter LightZone — for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. But although the Windows and OS X versions of LightZone cost hundreds of dollars, the Linux version is absolutely free. It is a lucky break, too, because LightZone is a powerful tool that bests many of its expensive competitors on both quality and ease of use."

Submission + - Spyware given seal of approval to be installed

Submitted by smooth wombat on Thursday February 15, 2007 @02:27PM

smooth wombat writes: 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:

"The companies whose applications have passed the challenging certification process for the Trusted Download whitelist are all demonstrating a commitment to protecting consumer privacy," said Fran Maier, executive director and president of TRUSTe. "By completely informing users about the particulars of the downloads they offer up front, the participating companies are increasing transparency and giving control to users."

Some of the software which has been certified includes Coupon Bar 5.0 from Coupons Inc, Crawler Toolbar 4.5.0 from Crawler LLC and Save/SaveNow from WhenU.com.

Submission + - Female Gamers have More Sex

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Belgian research firm found that girls who never play computer games have less sex than girls who do play games on their PC or gaming consoles. Breeze says the girls who do play games have sex 4.3 times a week, while the girls who never play games only go to bed 3.2 times a week.

Submission + - Earth's constant hum explained

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:41PM

MattSparkes writes: "It has been known for some time that there is a constant hum that emanates from the Earth, which can be heard near 10 millihertz on a seismometer. The problem was that nobody knew what caused it. It has now been shown that it is caused by waves on the bottom of the sea, and more specifically "by the combination of two waves of the same frequency travelling in opposite directions""

Submission + - Has open-source lost its halo?

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @12:49PM

PetManimal writes: "Open-source software development once had a reputation as a grassroots movement, but it is increasingly a mainstream IT profit center, and according to Computerworld, some in the industry are asking whether "open source" has become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior. Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., the article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in the open-source community. The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials:

[InfoWorld columnist Dave] Rosenberg is more disturbed by the bandwagon jumpers: the companies, mostly startups, belatedly going open-source in order to "ride a trend," while paying only lip service to the community and its values. Take Aras Corp., a provider of Windows-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that in January decided to go open-source. Rosenberg depicted the firm in his blog as an opportunistic Johnny-Come-Lately. "I'm not impressed when a company whose software is totally built on Microsoft technologies goes open-source," said Rosenberg, who even suspects that the company is being promoted by Microsoft "as a shill" to burnish Redmond's image in open-source circles.
"

Submission + - The most politically incorrect games ever

Submitted by

The Bike Blog

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:03PM

The Bike Blog writes: "These are two of the most politically dangerous board games ever. In the first you play as either a superpower or terrorist organisation, and compete for world power. In the second you compete either as evolution or intelligent design. "This game didn't happen by accident," the creator said in a statement. "It was intelligently designed.""

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