Xner - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Who knew? (Score 1) 167

by Xner on Tuesday November 22, @06:28AM (#38134004) Attached to: OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript

Actually, since we're on topic now, I have been looking for a good way to get into JavaScript that steers clear of the cargo cult mentality. Do you have any pointers for books, tutorials etc?

Comment: Re:Not a "whitelist" (Score 1) 158

by Xner on Saturday March 27 2010, @12:56PM (#31641122) Attached to: Major 'Net Players Mulling IPv6 Whitelist

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3041.txt

Comment: Re:How did they collect their data (Score 1) 258

by Xner on Sunday October 04 2009, @01:46PM (#29637029) Attached to: Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study

People keep saying it, but not sourcing it. Care to?

White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter 144

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 04 2009, @08:38AM
from the you-guys-want-a-low-uid dept.

theodp writes "The official White House Blog called the move WhiteHouse 2.0 as the Obama administration unveiled its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders: Facebook (157,606 fans and counting), MySpace (174,817 friends and counting) and Twitter (34,612 followers and counting)."

Comment: LIES! (Score 1) 386

by Xner on Monday December 29 2008, @07:59AM (#26256849) Attached to: Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?

We have two, one before and one after the security control :P

Doctorow reads The Hacker Crackdown-> 0

Submitted by

tmk

on Sunday June 24 2007, @02:42PM

tmk writes "I never got the time to read Bruce Sterling's book The Hacker Crackdown which portrays the events that lead to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Now I can take the book to the gym: Cory Doctorow reads the book and gives the MP3 for free."
Link to Original Source

Covert Censorship by the Physics Preprint Archive

Submitted by Talonator on Monday March 26 2007, @11:57AM

Talonator writes "A 2004 article by Nobel prize laureate Brian Josephson (discoverer of the Josephson effect) about academic censorship and the widespread resistance within academia to new ideas. An exchange imagined by Josephson: "Some 'reader complaints' have come in regarding preprints posted to the archive by Drs. Einstein and Yang. Dr. Einstein, who is not even an academic, claims to have shown in his preprint that mass and energy are equivalent, while Professor Yang is suggesting, on the basis of an argument I find completely unconvincing, that parity is not conserved in weak interactions. What action shall I take? Abject nonsense! Just call up their records and set their 'barred' flags to TRUE.""