Xner - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Choice (Score 4, Insightful) 370

by Xner on Saturday January 05, 2013 @03:31PM (#42489701) Attached to: Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors

I note that you have offered no rebuttals of the parent's points save "I know what I am talking about". I'm not sure you do. Would you please expand on how and why you think the parent is wrong? Note that if by "getting into an academic career" you mean "getting tenure", the I suggest you re-read the parent post carefully.

Comment: Re:Good for Linux. (Score 1) 353

by Xner on Thursday December 20, 2012 @06:41AM (#42346211) Attached to: Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta

Eh nope, OpenGL is superior to DirectX performancewise and always will be because it can write directly to GPU.

What does this even mean?

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

by Xner on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @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 (594765) 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.""