EriDay - Slashdot User

Comment: Mod parent up (Score 1) 175

by EriDay on Thursday April 28 2011, @08:38AM (#35961714) Attached to: B&N Responds To Microsoft's Android Suit

I was kind of thinking the same thing. I've been on the fence about a Nook, this puts me over the fence. I want to contribute to B&N's war chest.

I'm looking at a B&W model, not color.

Comment: I'm a better person for it. (Score 1) 697

by EriDay on Friday April 22 2011, @08:33AM (#35905408) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment?

I haven't had TV for over a year.

My fiction intake: I enjoy movies on Netflix. The Daily Show and Colbert on Hulu.

My non-fiction intake: Documentaries on Netflix (almost all are streamable).

My news intake: I read my news. I find it amazing when I talk with people who get their "news" from TV, it's like we're from a different universe. I find TV news to be essentially fact free.

This wouldn't work if I liked watching sports. My take on sports: "I'm an American, we pay professionals to exercise for us while we watch".

Comment: Re:Hopefully Schmidt's privacy ideas leave with hi (Score 1) 185

by EriDay on Thursday January 20 2011, @10:05PM (#34947810) Attached to: Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO

This is Google jettisoning a little bit of their evil.

IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

Posted by samzenpus on Friday December 10 2010, @02:19PM
from the bad-idea dept.

aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter 147

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20 2010, @07:36PM
from the type-slower dept.

tsamsoniw writes "California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's campaign team attempted to share with her Twitter followers an endorsement from a police association. Unfortunately, the campaign press secretary entered an incorrect or incomplete Bit.ly URL in the Tweet, which took clickers to a YouTube video featuring a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar. And for whatever reason, the Tweet, which went out on the 18th, has remained active through today."

Comment: Re:Finders Keepers? (Score 1) 851

by EriDay on Friday October 08 2010, @05:52PM (#33841268) Attached to: College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It

Bottom line: The police don't need a warrant to place one on a car. They just need a warrant to get it back.

Morphing Metals 121

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 16 2010, @05:38AM
from the forge-ahead dept.

aarondubrow writes "Imagine a metal that 'remembers' its original, cold-forged shape, and can return to that shape when exposed to heat or a magnetic pulse. Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel, such a metal could contract on command, or swing back and forth like a pendulum. Believe it or not, such metals already exist. First discovered in 1931, they belong to a class of materials called 'shape memory alloys (SMA),' whose unique atomic make-up allows them to return to their initial form, or alternate between forms through a phase change."

Comment: Re:What indeed? (Score 1) 316

by EriDay on Tuesday August 17 2010, @06:12PM (#33281948) Attached to: Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities

Yeah, their developer conference starts tomorrow. Go figure.

Comment: Re:missing from the list (Score 0) 205

by EriDay on Tuesday June 22 2010, @07:12AM (#32651248) Attached to: Best Places To Work In IT 2010

I tried working for those guys before.

They suck!

Best Places To Work In IT 2010 205

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 22 2010, @12:58AM
from the wish-you-were-here dept.

CWmike writes "These top-rated IT workplaces combine choice benefits with hot technologies and on-target training. Computerworld's 17th annual report highlights the employers firing on all cylinders. The Employer Scorecard ranks IT firms based on best benefits, retention, training, diversity, and career development. Also read what IT staffs have to say about job satisfaction. How's your workplace, IT folk?" Read below for a quick look at the top 10 IT workplaces according to this survey.