Jack Schitt - Slashdot User

+ - High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid-> 1

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Jack Schitt

on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @10:02PM

Jack Schitt writes "Three Racine, Wisconsin sophomore students were notified on Monday that a celestial body they discovered during a science project had been verified as an asteroid. The students at Racine's Prairie School will be able to name the asteroid in about four years."
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+ - The Spider Car

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Jack Schitt

on Monday May 07, 2007 @05:06AM

Jack Schitt writes "$15,000 and 9 months of designing/building get you your very own Spider Car.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f5_1177816318"

+ - The Machine is Us/ing Us.

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Thursday February 08, 2007 @02:49AM

Jack Schitt writes "This video on the front page of YouTube is adding even more hype to Web 2.0. We'll need to rethink a few things...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE"

+ - Engineers stymied by management, yet again

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Monday January 29, 2007 @04:26AM

Jack Schitt writes "An engineer speaks out against Lockheed Martin, the Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security because various technical systems designed by co-workers didn't meet standards or even requirements, but were pushed ahead by management anyway. Didn't a similar thing happen to Challenger and Columbia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3VV8Za04g"

+ - Second- and Third-degree Burns from Cellphone Fire

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:12AM

Jack Schitt writes "Repent! For the end is near! The machines have risen up against the human race and will soon devour us all! It began with the flaming Dell laptop: the singular action that spawned the Battle of the Flaming Batteries. We fought back with recalls of many Dell and Apple laptop batteries. While the battle was won, the war still rages.

Now, the assault against the human race has began anew with cellphone batteries as CNN reports. Protect your families. Stop using technology because it is trying to kill us all."

+ - The Death of Habeas Corpus

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @02:36AM

Jack Schitt writes "I know this may be from October 18, 2006, but I never saw it anywhere other than this MSNBC broadcast on YouTube.

Forget the DMCA.

Forget the PATRIOT Act.

Habeas Corpus, the legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment, can now be blocked if the Feds decide for whatever reason (including classified reasons) to call you an enemy combatant. In other words, if you decide to protest some aspect of the US Government and manage to get their attention, they now have a legal loophole which allows them to arrest and detain you indefinitely without your ability to challenge it and without charges being filed.

I should move to China. At least they give you the illusion of being able to fight your detainment.

See the open statement to president Bush by MSNBC's Kieth Olbermann.

Attention US Government: I have no intention of harming the US or it's citizens at any point, either now or in the future. It's not worth the gas money to come and arrest me. Have a nice day.
-John Q. Public"

+ - Websites not liable for libel in California

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @02:49AM

Jack Schitt writes "CNN is reporting that the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that websites to which inflammatory speech is posted by third parties are not liable for it.
"The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturbing implications," Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan wrote in the majority opinion. "Nevertheless ... statutory immunity serves to protect online freedom of expression and to encourage self-regulation, as Congress intended."
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+ - Most complex batch file or shell script ever

Submitted by Jack Schitt on Saturday September 02, 2006 @01:04AM

Jack Schitt writes "In the interest of entertainment and out of sheer curiosity, what is the single most complex batch file(s) you have ever conceived and implemented? When I say complex, I don't mean obfuscated. I mean most amount of work done in a single batch file or series of batch files. (Warning, I'm a former Dos guy, now Windows guy. Batch file can translate to shell script or something similar.)

A good example would be the online bulletin board system I devised for use as a CGI. It implemented rudimentary authentication and administration. It also had email capabilities through something a buddy of mine wrote in c that was akin to sendmail for dos. All of the html was embedded in the batch files though so updating a template was difficult to say the least. Sadly, the code was lost in a house fire before it could make it to a server."