AgingYoungRebel - Slashdot User

Comment: That's it? (Score 4, Insightful) 483

by AgingYoungRebel on Tuesday March 09 2010, @11:06AM (#31413788) Attached to: Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed

Gee if this is the work of the evil empire the world is safe.

Comment: Sea Shepherds FTW (Score 1) 770

by AgingYoungRebel on Tuesday December 01 2009, @12:14AM (#30279210) Attached to: Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots

This sounds quite like one of the favorite tactics of the Sea Shepherds against the illegal Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean. Except instead of launchers and parachutes they use Zodiacs and balls. http://www.seashepherd.org/

LED Bulbs Lifecycle Energy Costs Calculated-> 1

Submitted by necro81 on Monday November 30 2009, @02:53PM

necro81 writes "The NY Times is reporting that a new report from Osram, a major lighting manufacturer, has calculated the total lifecycle energy costs of LED lightbulbs and found that they are approximately 20% that of incandescents. While it is well known that LED bulbs use a fraction of the energy of incandescents to produce the same amount of light, it has been unproven if the higher manufacturing energy costs made the technology a net gain. The study found that manufacturing and distribution energy costs of all lightbulb technologies is only about 2% of their total lifetime energy cost — a tiny fraction of the energy used to produce light."
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Is whois.crsnic.net fubar? 0

Submitted by

AgingYoungRebel

on Thursday October 01 2009, @12:00PM

AgingYoungRebel writes "whois msn.com is returning bad records from whois.crsnic.net. Slightly entertaining too.

$ whois msn.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.

MSN.COM.ZZZZZ.DOWNLOAD.MOVIE.ONLINE.ZML2.COM
MSN.COM.ZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
MSN.COM.TW
MSN.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
MSN.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
MSN.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
MSN.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:38:18 UTC

Further investigation is required."

Comment: Re:Important for the Old Debate (Score 1) 512

by AgingYoungRebel on Sunday May 07 2006, @01:10AM (#15279941) Attached to: 2.6 Linux Kernel in Need of an Overhaul?

Is this the day that Tanenbaum, says "I told you so"?