Dark$ide - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Incremental and/or parallel computing? (Score 1) 99

by Dark$ide on Sunday May 27, @05:57PM (#40130677) Attached to: Google Now Searches JavaScript

What happens when Google chooses to ignore my carefully crafted robots.txt?

If they then download the my javascript experiment and run it at their cost, that's their problem.

When I can trust crawlers to not ignore my robots.txt I'll stop using fail2ban on my apache logs.

Comment: Joseph Swan (Score 1) 541

by Dark$ide on Tuesday May 22, @06:06PM (#40081159) Attached to: Of currently dead inventors, my favorite is ...

The guy who invented the light bulb.

Comment: Obligatory YouTube video (Score 5, Insightful) 217

by Dark$ide on Sunday May 20, @07:17AM (#40056153) Attached to: Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers

Gwent Police explain texting while driving kills

Comment: Re:Reminds me about LA's nuclear reactor (Score 1) 169

by Dark$ide on Monday May 14, @05:56PM (#39999847) Attached to: Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor

QMC (University of :London) used to have a small nuclear reactor in Stratford E15. That's right where the London 2012 Olympic Park has been built. We had a visit there in 1981. They used to heat up a bit of water from the local stream and pour warm water back (kept the frogs happy). We asked "What happens if it melts down?" and the nuclear physicist who was showing us round said, "It's OK, not many folks live nearby.".

The reactor closed in 1982 and was de-commissioned shortly after that.So Usain Bolt won't be nuclear powered when he runs the 100m.

Comment: Here's a better article.... (Score 3, Informative) 83

by Dark$ide on Sunday May 13, @11:46AM (#39986275) Attached to: Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones

I stopped reading the article because they can't spell "ACSII".

So a quick Google turns up this Black-boxing the User: Internet Protocol over Xylophone Players (IPoXP)

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 1) 128

by Dark$ide on Friday May 04, @10:42AM (#39890287) Attached to: British Broadband Needs £1bn More Funding

I live in a town of 14k people and we have just moved to 8Mb broadband speeds, the closest City, of around 250k people moved to 20Mb a year or so ago. There is no estimated date for my town to get access to BT's fibre network or Virgin's Cable network even if it ever comes to the City 13 miles away. I would not consider myself rural, im an hour's drive from the capital and 10 minutes drive from one of the major oil ports in the north sea. I'm in Scotland BTW, and the busy side, not the mountains, blue ocean, and unhappy crofters side.

Luxury. I live in a town of 140K and the best we can get is 4Mb.

Part of the problem is lack of investment by BT because they're a private company who have to feed their shareholders rather than giving the best possible service to their customers. Cameron and the ConDem Gov't can bleat on about superfast broadband for everyone including the folks in the Outer Hebrides but unless BT can turn that into a profit for their shareholders it ain't gonna happen.

Comment: Testing if the ISP is banning TPB (Score 5, Insightful) 168

by Dark$ide on Thursday May 03, @09:40AM (#39877639) Attached to: British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic

I suspect most of the traffic is folks testing whether their ISP is imposing the censorship and if it is doing that testing whether proxies and/or VPN and/or OpenDNS/GoogleDNS or other methods circumvents that censorship.

IBM offers retirement with job guarantee through 2013 -> 0

Submitted by dcblogs on Tuesday May 01, @04:23PM

dcblogs writes "IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement — and may be worried about a layoff — a one-time voluntary program that would ensure their employment through Dec. 31, 2013. The program, described in a letter addressed to IBM managers, "offers participants 70% of their pay for working 60% of their schedule." Participating employees would receive "the same benefits they do today, most at a full-time level, including health benefits and 401(k) Plus Plan automatic company contributions." IBM isn't offering the program in lieu of U.S. workforce cutbacks. In 2006, IBM employed about 127,000 in U.S. The Alliance@IBM, a CWA local, now estimates the U.S. workforce at around 95,000. How far IBM will go in cutting gets debate, including one radical estimate."
Link to Original Source

Comment: Stop worrying - the numbers of deaths are very low (Score 1) 274

by Dark$ide on Wednesday April 25, @09:49AM (#39793937) Attached to: Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California

From an island with a population of about 70million we've recorded 1706 deaths from CJD since 1990. The stats

In the mean time hundreds of thousands of ££££s have been spent researching this. The price of beef has rocketed.

It's been a complete waste of money in my view.

Comment: What's the problem? (Score -1) 403

by Dark$ide on Friday April 20, @05:31AM (#39743843) Attached to: Europe Agrees To Send Airline Passenger Data To US

If this stops one Abdul the Knicker Bomber from flyiing and taking his explosive laden body to hell along with the other 200+ folks on his flight then it's done what's needed.

The US DHS get my details and my fingerprints when I go through immigration so what's wrong with them getting that stuff 10 hours earlier?