ageitgey - Slashdot User

Looking for something better...

Submitted by on Saturday June 16 2007, @02:54AM

An anonymous reader writes "Given the rash of police state politics and freedom limiting actions by the United States government over the past several years, I have begun considering the notion of relocation. The only really pertinent question is, "Where?" What nations around the world are accepting enough of foreign nationals, like I would be, to allow my family and myself to live and work within their borders? I would be seeking a nation with as much, if not more, basic and civil freedoms as the U.S.

What says Slashdot? Opinions, ideas and notions?"

What do you REALLY think about MS vs Open Source?->

Submitted by psychgeek on Saturday June 16 2007, @02:46AM

psychgeek writes "What people believe and what they think they believe can sometimes be very different things. The Implicit Association Test is a tool that psychologists use to measure this type of hidden, unconcious bias and prejudice. Project Implicit, at Harvard university, provides a website with an online version of the Impicit Association Test that you can use to measure your own subconcious associations, and the current "featured" test is "Microsoft vs. Open Source". It would be interesting to know how many slashdotters really feel what they think they do — do you really believe in FOSS, or are you just here for the Kool-Aid?"
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Apache Ant gets a Makeover->

Submitted by on Friday June 15 2007, @11:38PM

An anonymous reader writes "Virtual Ant, a new GUI for the popular Apache Ant build tool creates an environment similar to Windows Explorer where users can play around with their file system, while whatever they do is recorded and turned into an Ant build script. The real cool part is that whatever they do inside Virtual Ant does not affect the real file system. So deleting a file by mistake doesnt actually delete it. The program also has some really cool features like allowing you to go back and forward in time to see how the file system looked like after each ant task was executed on it."
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Amazon Valuation Tops Google's, Baffles Some

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theodp

on Friday June 15 2007, @10:30PM

theodp writes "Trading at 53x expected 2008 earnings, Amazon's valuation is more than double that of Google and eBay, and nearly twice that of Apple, although some are less than impressed by a company that won't make a dime on over 1 million Harry Potter pre-orders."

Woman dies from drinking water to win a Wii

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2007, @12:47AM

An anonymous reader writes "CNN reports that a woman in Rancho Cordova, California, died of water intoxication after drinking a large amount of water in a contest held by radio station KDND 107.9 called "Hold Your Wee for a Wii". She was trying to win a Wii for her children."

Comment: Re:I hate forced subjects (Score 2, Insightful) 30

by ageitgey on Friday December 08 2006, @07:04AM (#17160532) Attached to: What the Sony Reshuffling Actually Means

If it's a manpower issue, they could always hire this guy who looks like he is well qualified for that, skill wise.