DigitalNate - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:and salvation is in da cloud (Score 1) 126

by DigitalNate on Monday October 03 2011, @05:59PM (#37594068) Attached to: The Nine Circles of IT Hell

If you want to pay for that go ahead, although most companies are more than happy to use their already overworked and underpaid staff, possibly add in a few contractors, and have (mostly) working software slightly after the due date (which nobody believed in the first place) that meets the business needs for 1/10th or less of the cost. Also, I don't know where you have been working, but IT is far from the only department running poorly in most companies I have seen. TL;DR version: most companies are not flying in space.

Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 412

by DigitalNate on Monday September 26 2011, @11:06AM (#37515786) Attached to: Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested

Nice, it shows me the video box but when I press play it says "Not available in your area".

Comment: Re:Science depends on stats (Score 1) 821

by DigitalNate on Tuesday September 13 2011, @03:47PM (#37390942) Attached to: Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created 261

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 15 2010, @07:59PM
from the what-about-a-really-good-egg-cream dept.

Gisg writes "The University of Arizona team reported that their genetically modified mosquitoes are immune to the malaria-causing parasite, a single-cell organism called Plasmodium. Riehle and his colleagues tested their genetically-altered mosquitoes by feeding them malaria-infested blood. Not even one mosquito became infected with the malaria parasite."

Comment: Re:6-STABLE? (Score 2, Insightful) 289

by DigitalNate on Friday November 04 2005, @01:33PM (#13951401) Attached to: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

There were a lot of problems in the early 5.x releases, which led to a lot of criticizm from everyone who was used to the rock solid 4.x versions. If you browse through the release engineering section on the FreeBSD website http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html, you will find some articles discussing changes to the release engineering process that occured in response to the problems experienced during 5.x.