Mansing - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:AOL are still going? (Score 2) 160

by Mansing on Monday February 07 2011, @02:22PM (#35129178) Attached to: AOL To Buy Huffington Post

Site Information for huffingtonpost.com
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Site Information for dailykos.com
Alexa Traffic Rank: 3,775 Traffic Rank in US: 860
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Site Information for drudgereport.com
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Comment: Big Media ... now Big Pharma (Score 1) 366

by Mansing on Monday December 06 2010, @03:09PM (#34463960) Attached to: DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites

Which "high campaign donation" industry will the US gubmint protect next?

Comment: We've Been Using as QuickPhone (Score 1) 289

by Mansing on Monday June 28 2010, @10:35AM (#32717104) Attached to: Best Phone For a Wi-Fi-Only Location?

http://www.voipsupply.com/ip-phones/wi-fi

A basic SIP phone that is WiFi only ... nothing more, nothing less.

Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos 198

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 21 2010, @01:44PM
from the so-that's-how-a-magnet-works dept.

Working on the assumption that the Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles was indeed a tribute to the wonder of nature and not the cleverest troll ever, some folks from the hackerspace Noisebridge decided to try and educate ICP fans. Surprisingly, most of the fans seemed to enjoy the science lesson, but representatives of the band didn't seem to think it was funny.

Comment: Re:I love moderates (Score 1) 1318

by Mansing on Friday June 18 2010, @02:32PM (#32617498) Attached to: Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed

Christianity is not about forcing a world view, religion, beliefs, or anything on anyone else. It's about spreading the good news of the Gospel to everyone so they have the choice to be saved or not.

You might want to inform the Pope and the billion or so Catholics of this fact.

Comment: Re:Ah Yes Evil Capitalism (Score 1, Insightful) 659

by Mansing on Sunday May 30 2010, @07:10PM (#32401700) Attached to: Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy

" Last I checked self-determination and free market capitalism were some of the founding principles of this country ..."

Last time I checked, the Constitution and Bill of Rights made no mention of "free market capitalism". Did I miss the memo?

Comment: Re:Hallelujah! (Score 1) 435

by Mansing on Saturday May 08 2010, @03:02PM (#32141024) Attached to: First Superbugs, Now Superweeds

"The scientific community overwhelmingly denies that your precious organic food is any more nutritious."

Not necessarily more nutritious, but certainly cultivated without most of the chemical pesticides. People are interested in LESS CHEMICALS ... not eating produce that was effectively grown in poisoned soil.

An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen 166

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 07 2010, @02:25PM
from the besides-me dept.

Julie188 writes "Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above."

Geomagnetic Storm In Progress 110

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 05 2010, @02:13PM
from the sky-is-falling dept.

shogun writes "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports a strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. The shuttle, ISS and GPS systems may be affected." They think this storm was caused by a weak solar flare on April 3rd. As you may expect, this has caused some unusually impressive northern lights since it started. What you may not expect is a photograph from Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the International Space Station showing the aurora from orbit. He apparently tweets a lot of pictures from space. He and his crewmates have taken over 100,000 pictures since coming aboard the ISS.

Drupal's Dries Buytaert On Drupal 7 55

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19 2010, @11:57AM
from the on-the-horizon dept.

itwbennett writes "The Drupal community has been working on Drupal 7 for two years, and there are 'hundreds of changes' to show for it, says Drupal creator Dries Buytaert in an interview with ITworld's Esther Schindler on the occasion of Drupal 7 going into Alpha test this week. Most notable for end users are 'some massive usability improvements,' says Buytaert, while site builders will see the greatest changes in the Drupal Content Construction Kit (CCK), which has been moved into the Drupal core. But one thing that hasn't changed is the not-so-easy upgrade path. 'The upgrade path for a Drupal site has never been really easy, to be honest,' Buytaert says. 'We do break backwards compatibility. It's a little bit painful because it requires all of the contributed modules — and there's 4,000-5,000 of them — to make changes.' But Buytaert doesn't think that's all bad. 'Innovation is key. Backwards compatibility limits innovation,' Buytaert contends. 'The rule we have is: We'll break the API if it makes a better API, and if it allows good innovation and progress to be made. Also: The second rule is that we'll never break people's data. We'll always provide an upgrade path for the data.'"