Jade E. 2 - Slashdot User

Wikileaks releases their cache of US Iraq War Docs-> 3

Submitted by Caelesto on Friday October 22 2010, @05:27PM

Caelesto writes "Today around 21:00 GMT, Wikileaks declared an end to their media embargo of over 400,000 Iraq War documents after Al Jazeera released their story 30 minutes ahead of schedule. These documents, which have been kept under wraps by Wikileaks for months, may reveal tortures and murders ignored by coalition forces during the fighting and occupation in Iraq. The pentagon maintained that releasing these documents represented a danger to US troops, but already dozens of news outlets are scrambling to report on what could be a devastating blow to the US Armed Force's already tattered image."
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Comment: Re:Shenanigans! (Score 5, Funny) 178

by Jade E. 2 on Tuesday June 22 2010, @09:30PM (#32660676) Attached to: Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain

how about this one, does it contain bugs?
10 PRINT "Meshach is never wrong!";
20 GOTO 10;

Yes, BASIC doesn't use semicolons at the end of lines.

Comment: Re:It is just trying to be helpful. (Score 1) 230

by Jade E. 2 on Tuesday August 11 2009, @06:31PM (#29030971) Attached to: Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing

Absolutely correct. The only thing that's changed is that MS redirected auto.search.msn.com, search.msn.com, and all of live.com to bing.com. So the old MSN Live Search domain not found page (Which should be familiar to anyone who ever misspelled 'getfirefox.com' shortly after installing a new windows system) now says Bing.com instead. Everybody panic!

Comment: They are already ahead of the government... (Score 1) 147

by Jade E. 2 on Saturday August 01 2009, @01:14AM (#28906195) Attached to: Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion

I don't know about their fusion reactor, but as far as web servers go that startup appears to be way ahead of LANL.

Comment: It's just competition (Score 1) 211

by Jade E. 2 on Thursday April 02 2009, @12:53AM (#27427041) Attached to: The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink

They're trying to steal readers by catering to the attention span of The Sun's traditional audience, obviously.

Comment: Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score 1) 1582

by Jade E. 2 on Wednesday April 01 2009, @09:53AM (#27415461) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

From checking out a handful of users, it looks to me like 'The Maker' is for subscribing.

Comment: PR disaster? (Score 4, Funny) 575

by Jade E. 2 on Sunday March 01 2009, @09:41PM (#27035115) Attached to: Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer

This could be a public relations disaster in the making for Netflix.

Nah, they'll be fine, as long as it doesn't make Slashdot.

Comment: Cryptogram tool (Score 2, Informative) 222

by Jade E. 2 on Monday December 29 2008, @08:28PM (#26263667) Attached to: FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge

There are automated ones out there that solve this in under a second, but if you want to figure it out yourself try this page:

http://www.esg.montana.edu/meg/consbio/cryptogram/crypto.html

Here's the puzzle text to copy:

VFWTDLCSWV. YD NSLMIJFWEJFD GSW SL NIJNQBLM FOBV EJFDVF DLNIGTFBSL.
KBVBF YYY.AHB.MSK/NSCDC.OFZ FS EDF WV QLSY SA GSWI VWNNDVV.