Hoppelainen - Slashdot User

Comment: Name mixup? (Score 1) 314

by Hoppelainen on Wednesday September 05 2007, @02:58PM (#20483439) Attached to: Programming Erlang

Perhaps it should have been given another name than a common statistical probability distribution (for some reason people who explore new programming languages are often interested in math and may therefore mix things up)

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

Huge problems with Windows Genuine Advantage-> 0

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Mikeprg

on Tuesday August 28 2007, @03:46PM

Mikeprg writes "Since Friday's evening (24 aug 2007) Windows Genuine Advantage service was unable to react to user's requests. Many owners of Windows XP and Windows Vista couldn't check the authenticity of their operating systems and, as a result, to receive updates, also some functions in Windows Vista have been disabled."
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Government editing our wikipedia?-> 0

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PsEvo

on Sunday August 19 2007, @02:19PM

PsEvo writes ""CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes."

Griffin's intentions were to catch scandals and other illegal operations, but it looks like he found more than expected. The database now holds over 34 million edits, many of which are from Microsoft, the CIA, and other large corporations. Companies like Diebold, Microsoft, and Wal-Mart, have made edits to wikipedia, some of which include the deleting of multiple paragraphs."
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