Ai Olor-Wile - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Even easier (Score 1) 127

by Ai Olor-Wile on Sunday July 06 2008, @02:13AM (#24072909) Attached to: Your Computer As Your Singing Coach

I heard a wildly apocryphal story once that claimed at least one IT company had developed a phone tree system that automatically directed you to a real person if you swore. You may be very much on to something!

Comment: Tarrists! (Score 5, Funny) 676

by Bovius on Tuesday May 20 2008, @07:03PM (#23483622) Attached to: YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos

Google is clearly acting in support of terrorism and is therefore itself a terrorist organization. We need to drop some injunction on that.

Kernel hacker -ck quits-> 2

Submitted by vmarks on Saturday March 01 2008, @11:09AM

vmarks writes "Kernel hacker Con Kolivas has quit submitting kernel patches. He talks with apcmag.com about Linux for the desktop, the performance issues he tried to rectify, and why he will now spend his time learning Japanese instead of developing improvements for the Linux kernel."
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The pros of upgrading from Vista to XP!-> 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2007, @02:25AM

An anonymous reader writes "A reviewer takes on the daunting task of upgrading [sic] from Vista to XP, and gives a very nice breakdown of the Pros and Cons (yes, there are a couple...;)"
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What is Bill Gates learning from Open Source?-> 0

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christian.einfeldt

on Saturday December 15 2007, @02:14AM

christian.einfeldt writes "In the world of Free Open Source Software communities, Microsoft is often viewed as the very epitome of the Cathedral-style model of software production. But is Bill Gates learning from the software development phenomenon that he once compared loosely to communism? In commenting on the results of a Microsoft-commissioned survey of approximately 500 board-level executives about the importance of interpersonal skills versus raw IT coding skills, Gates starts to sound a bit more like a member of the Apache Foundation than the take-no-prisoners king of cut-throat competition: 'Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.' [Emphasis added]. One wonders how long until 'sharing ideas' starts to become 'sharing source' code. Nah. it'll never happen."
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The History of the Commodore 64-> 1

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Matt Barton

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @01:56PM

Matt Barton writes "I thought Slashdotters might be interested in our History of the Commodore 64, the first in a set of six planned features on gaming platforms at Gamasutra. Bill Loguidice and I look at why the C-64 was so overwhelmingly popular, as both a personal computer and a brilliant gaming platform. We also give advice to modern gamers interested in emulating the platform and playing its games: "The 'Commie' is still the best personal computer ever to grace the living room.""
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Analyst reports 50,000 'Gphones' shipping out-> 0

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crossb0nez

on Tuesday October 16 2007, @10:11AM

crossb0nez writes "A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the end of this year.
Last week a Wall Street analyst reported that Google's shares would crack $700 with plans to make its own phone. Most, however, suspect that Google (GOOG) is making a mobile operating system that could work on any mobile device.
This isn't the first time that HTC has been mentioned as a possible manufacturer of the Google phone, but none have nailed concrete details. Should the HTC/Google partnership turn out to be true, consumers can expect their Gphones sometime in 2008.
The article also mentions development uses for starters — "These initial phones are not going to be for sale," Benjamin Schachter, one of the analysts who worked on the report, said in a phone call earlier today. "These are going to be available for developers only to understand how the software works." if only that Steve guy in 'the other white building' in California was so thoughtful of his company's consumers..."
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Swedish hackers pwn Turkish hackers-> 0

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DavidMWW

on Tuesday October 16 2007, @10:10AM

DavidMWW writes "Swedish hackers have retaliated against their Turkish counterparts following an attack earlier this month on some 5,000 Swedish websites. "We have chosen to leak these user details in response to the many recent attacks on Swedish web hosts and websites following the publication of a satirical drawing by Lars Vilks portraying the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a roundabout dog.""
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RIAA Launches Attack on Usenet-> 1

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Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday October 16 2007, @09:52AM

Anonymous Coward writes "The major record labels have launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com. The complaint filed in the federal District Court in New York accuses Usenet.com of providing access to millions of copyright infringing files and slams it for touting its service as a "haven for those seeking pirated content" Usenet.com has been putting up a fight against the RIAA, refusing to block access to alleged 'copyright infringing groups' Game On"
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Interpol identifies face-twirling criminal-> 0

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tfurrows

on Tuesday October 16 2007, @09:30AM

tfurrows writes "Chalk one up for the good guys; they caught that face-swirling idiot that we all read about not too long ago here on Slashdot.

"Thai police today named the 32-year-old suspect who was identified after an unprecedented global appeal launched last week ... Yesterday Interpol said that the suspect, photographed abusing children in Vietnam and Cambodia, had been identified by five sources"

I wonder if Interpol will give credit to the internet community and enlist their help more in the future..."
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