Comment Re:Paid Leave (Score 1) 610
When you're in the military, you're always on call. Being on vacation in another state means you aren't available. Hence, the requirement to spend your vacation time for weekends.
Comment Re:So why would anyone want to do this? (Score 1) 229
Fucking shrink wrapped supercomputer apps.
Comment Re:I need one (Score 1) 229
So, I guess our planes suck because you suck. Thanks a lot, guy.
Comment Re:Not hacked! (Score 1) 170
I get it now. Slashdot swapped the Insightful and Troll tags at some point.
I'd say you're mostly correct. Except I would say hacking is creating a hack, where a hack is something ( ( unexpected or unforeseen ) and ( useful or technically interesting ) and ( impressive or amusing, to include schadenfreude ) ).
- Create interthreading a switch statement and do while loop to manually unroll loops where useful? clever hack.
- Using a "Pringles" can for storing chips? cartridge snack.
- Using a "Pringles" can mounted to a rifle stock as a long distance phone hacking antenna? clever hack.
- Processing an xml file into a sql statement to derive a json element that parses to an HTML widget? boring, that
- Write a program that blasts the stack on a remote process, opens a shell and calls home to hand you the box? clever hack.
- Download a VBScript program that takes a server and room option and floods an IRC room? kiddy crap.
- Use a mostly ignored holdover feature of the x86 processor to create a sandbox environment for native compiled apps? clever hack.
- Use a gyroscope to carefully balance a two side-by-side wheeled vehicle steered by leaning? clever hack
- Drive one of the damned things off a cliff? Holy crap
et cetera.
Comment Re:I fail to see what is newsworthy (Score 1) 456
If they don't like the new organs, we offer a generous return policy.
Comment Re:You dont steal, you copy. (Score 1) 753
http://bash.org/?104052
<NES> lol
<NES> I download something from Napster
<NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
<NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
<NES> "getting my song back fucker"
Comment Re:Consequences of discovery (Score 1) 91
All life falls before the manifest destiny of man.
Comment Re:Right, it's more of a perfected anarchy. (Score 1) 641
This is no time to bring up the linux kernel response to out of memory situations.
Comment Re:Not exactly. (Score 2, Informative) 238
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA
Mitochondrial DNA is separate from the DNA of the host organism. It is inherited through the colony of mitochondria living in the egg the mother forms. No Ibex mother, no Ibex mitochondria. The mitochondria reproduce without interference from the hosts nuclear DNA. I don't know that this qualifies the animal as a hybrid, but as an environment its cellular flora have been replaced.
Mitochondrial DNA is separate from the DNA of the host organism. It is inherited through the colony of mitochondria living in the egg the mother forms. No Ibex mother, no Ibex mitochondria. The mitochondria reproduce without interference from the hosts nuclear DNA. I don't know that this qualifies the animal as a hybrid, but as an environment its cellular flora have been replaced.
Comment Re:Required reading (Score 1) 628
He was anthropomorphising them to "feel safe". What he meant was their `wriggle program` is interrupted by their `cling to shit` program when activated in that order. The thing just grabs when it detects leg contacts. Apparently they only have enough RAM for one program to run at a time.
Don't waste your empathy on base stupid creatures. Go love a puppy, or a gorilla or just about anything else. Insects and their aquatic brethren are mindless automatons. Nothing more.
Submission + - "DC Madam" Posts 13 Years of Phone Records (examiner.com)
GapingHeadwound writes: Time for /.ers to get to work...
From the article:
From the article:
In a move that will certainly set into motion hundreds of bloggers and journalists eager to unearth the next Washington sex scandal, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka the "DC Madam," has posted 13 years worth of phone records on her website Monday afternoon. The records cover Palfrey's time as head of "Pamela Martin & Associates," a Washington, D.C.-based escort service. As Yeas & Nays noted last week, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler recently lifted the temporary restraining order prohibiting Deborah Jeane Palfrey from releasing those telephone records.
Submission + - Search the DC Madam's Phone List (dcphonelist.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The "DC Madam", Deborah Jeane Palfrey,
released her phone records yesterday. At least one Senator has been found on the list. Now, you can search for others — dcphonelist.com has OCR-ed and indexed the numbers, so you can look up your favorite politician or televangelist and see if they're on the list!
FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked 221
[TheBORG] writes with news that FCC chairman Kevin Martin wants 700-MHz wireless devices and services to be unlocked. Spectrum auctions for the 700-MHz airwaves, being opened up for fixed and mobile broadband, are scheduled for early next year. "The proposed rules would apply only to the spectrum being auctioned, not the rest of the wireless business, which still makes most of its revenue from voice calls. But Martin's proposal, if adopted by the FCC, could reverberate through a U.S. wireless industry that has tightly controlled access to devices and services... Like most devices sold in the USA, the iPhone ... allows only features and applications that Apple and AT&T provide and works only with an AT&T contract. The FCC chairman said he has grown increasingly concerned that the current practices 'hamper innovations' dreamed up by outside developers. One example:... 'Internationally, Wi-Fi handsets have been available for some time,' Martin noted. 'But they are just beginning to roll out here.'"
Submission + - Spammers haven't solved CAPTCHA after all
An anonymous reader writes: According to New Scientist's Technology blog, spammers probably haven't figured out how to defeat CAPTCHAs at all, despite recent reports suggesting they had. It seems that the Trojan program credited with creates free email accounts by 'overcoming' CAPTCAs actually just copies each CAPTCHA and sends it off somewhere else for processing. The CAPTCHA is indeed solved, but the process may well be done done manually. And at least one CAPTCHA expert things the speed with which it works — 500 accounts an hour — suggests a person is doing it.
Submission + - Fallout 3 Van Buren tech demo released
gbridge writes: Over eight years since the release of Fallout 2, the original (pre-alpha) tech demo of Black Isle Studio's abandoned Fallout 3 Van Buren project has made its way into the public domain. It's obviously a long, long way from being even beta quality but fans are rejoicing that they finally have something of the cancelled project to see for themselves. Bethesda have also given Fallout fans something to look forward to by announcing that a teaser video of their own interpretation of Fallout 3 will be released in 33 days time.
