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Girl Quits On Dry Erase Board a Hoax 147

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 11 2010, @08:30AM
from the take-this-job-and-shove-it dept.

suraj.sun writes "It's the same old story: young woman quits, uses dry erase board and series of pictures to let entire office know the boss is a sexist pig, exposes his love of playing FarmVille during work hours." Story seem too good to be true? It probably is, at least according to writer Peter Kafka. Even so, Jay Leno and Good Morning America have already reached out to "Jenny."

Comment: Am I missing Something? (Score 1) 470

by BrGaribaldi on Monday April 13 2009, @01:49PM (#27559439) Attached to: Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System

I went to Amazon's main page and did a search for Mark Probst, the author mentioned in TFA. "The Filly", his book also mentioned in TFA shows up on the top of the list (which is a big list with a bunch of stuff about Survivor). I went to the page and "The Filly" has a sales ranking. It listed as the number 1 selling book in the G and L literature catagory. If anyone is curious, this book has a sales ranking of #77,928.

Comment: Re:When they're finally ready to present themselve (Score 1) 54

by BrGaribaldi on Thursday June 12 2008, @10:44AM (#23763955) Attached to: Testing New Transistors In Space

Overlords? We're talking solar radiation and transistors here, this is Fantastic Four meets Iron Man!

Has Open Source Jumped the Shark? 250

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 30 2007, @02:34PM
from the 100-yard-shark-hurdles dept.

AlexGr writes to tell us that Jeff Gould has a somewhat jaded look at the commercial push of Open Source and what that may be doing to the overall Open Source movement. "I've been a Linux fan for years, but lately I wonder if the drum beating from the big IT vendors in favor of open source hasn't finally slipped over the edge from sincere enthusiasm to meaningless — or in some cases downright hypocritical — sloganeering. The example that brought this gloomy thought to mind was a recent IBM press release touting a 'new open client solution' as an 'alternative to vendor lock-in'. Wow. Imagine that. An alternative to vendor lock-in."

OS Combat - Ubuntu Linux Versus Vista 559

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 27 2007, @11:11AM
from the cue-the-music dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek pits Ubuntu Linux versus Windows Vista in a detailed comparison. They run down a number of points for this comparison, including installation, hardware support, software, and backup. For IW, backup was a crucial feature. As a result, the conclusion are unusual for this type of review because it straddles the fence. The verdict is: 'a tie, but only because both platforms fall short in some ways. Vista's roster of backup features aren't available in every SKU of the product; Ubuntu doesn't have anything like Vista's shadow copy system and its user-friendly backup tools are pretty rudimentary.'"

Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released 296

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 26 2007, @04:36PM
from the a-long-awaited-penguin dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.21 after months of development. This release improves the virtualization with VMI, a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware. KVM does get initial paravirtualization support along with live migration and host suspend/resume support. 2.6.21 also gets a tickless idle loop mechanism called 'Dynticks', built in top of 'clockevents', another feature that unifies the timer handling and brings true high-resolution timers. Other features are: bigger kernel parameter-line, support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU and for the Cell-based 'celleb' Toshiba architecture, NFS IPv6 support, IPv4 IPv6 IPSEC tunneling, UFS2 write, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encryption for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, some new drivers and many other small improvements."

IBM Reveals New Virtual Linux Environment 96

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 23 2007, @05:25PM
from the pave-the-way dept.

jenwren1010 writes to mention that IBM has just announced the new open beta version of their virtual Linux environment that allows users to run x86 Linux programs on POWER processor-based IBM System p servers. "Designed to reduce power, cooling and space by consolidating x86 Linux workloads on System p servers, it will eventually be released as the [rolls-off-the-tongue] 'IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE).' With a 31.5% global revenue share during 2006, IBM hopes to build on System p UNIX success and extend firmly into the Linux marketplace. Considering there are almost 2,800 applications that already run natively on Linux on System p servers, the chances are good that it will succeed."

Asimov's 3 laws? Ethical dilemmas of robotics

Submitted by

penguin_dance

on Friday March 09 2007, @02:59PM

penguin_dance writes "This week, experts in South Korea said they were drawing up an ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa. And, a group of leading roboticists called the European Robotics Network (Euron) has even started lobbying governments for legislation.

Of course this brings important delimas to mind: What happens to the Rockem' Sockem Robots (or is it all staged anyway)? Will it be a hate crime to eliminate a robot?"

SkyNet closer then you think

Submitted by opticalmatrix on Friday March 09 2007, @02:47PM

opticalmatrix writes "The British military is set to take one of its most significant steps into the digital age with the launch of the first Skynet 5 satellite. The Skynet 5A platform lifts off from Kourou, French Guiana, on Saturday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6434773.stm"

Classic Video Game Belt Buckles

Submitted by

sidebug

on Friday March 09 2007, @02:44PM

sidebug writes "Being a fanatic for retro video games has come a long way from the ghetto gamers were confined to when many of the games depicted on these classic video game belt buckles were initially popular. Is this kind of popularity good for the evolution of gaming as a whole?"