micahfk - Slashdot User

Comment: If Only Slashdot Asked Itself... (Score 2) 291

by micahfk on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @09:03PM (#38364486) Attached to: 24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs

...if it had talked about this story before to know that it did already:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0239232/facebook-holding-back-personal-data

And yes, it links TFAs that mention this story already.

Comment: Re:The price will fluctuate up and down (Score 1) 195

by micahfk on Friday February 26, 2010 @01:03PM (#31286900) Attached to: ARM Designer Steve Furber On Energy-Efficient Computing

All of which avoids the point that there is no peak oil theory. Supply and demand, new technology, new exploration (mostly outside the US really) all play a part in bringing commodities downward.

Oh, and those graphs are a 15 year timescale for whale oil--we're talking a longer time period.

Comment: Re:Bull... (Score 1) 195

by micahfk on Thursday February 25, 2010 @07:41PM (#31279582) Attached to: ARM Designer Steve Furber On Energy-Efficient Computing

Wanna make a $10,000 bet on the price?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wager_between_Julian_Simon_and_Paul_Ehrlich
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/opinion/23tierney.html?_r=1&n=Top%2FOpinion%2FEditorials%20and%20Op-Ed%2FOp-Ed%2FColumnists%2FJohn%20Tierney&oref=login

In case you want an excuse to back out.

+ - Comcast no longer allows you to use your own email-> 0

Submitted by

micahfk

on Thursday December 24, 2009 @05:16PM

micahfk writes "Whether or not this is Comcast's way to force users to use something of their products after the recent ruling on subscribers not having to use their box anymore, the change to forcing users to do something is usually never a good idea."
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Comment: Re:Games of my youth! (Score 2, Insightful) 1120

by micahfk on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @11:50AM (#28853579) Attached to: Which Game Series Would You Reboot?

StarControl really had a great storyline--this honestly could be rebooted in a variety of ways:

Classic Reboot: Making it another space-adventure game
RPG/MMORPG Reboot: Playing as a character race for any of the main offshoots
Single player Reboot: You fighting as the humans to free other races in a single person (or dual-player) mystery/adventure

Comment: Multi-Upload in One Place (Score 1) 227

by micahfk on Thursday September 04, 2008 @05:36PM (#24880359) Attached to: Best Way To Distribute Video Online?

I personally have used TubeMogul and found it to be a great resource to submit one video to many different sites all in a simple interface with great tracking as well for analysis later on.

The Great Office War 11

Posted by samzenpus on Friday August 29, 2008 @02:36PM
from the brothers-in-arms dept.

You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great Office War, you won't have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy sent a fax in the copy room."

Don't Worry, Sir, I'm From the Internet 5

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 14, 2008 @11:50AM
from the to-protect-and-serve dept.

I feel safer already.

Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement 147

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @12:44PM
from the step-in-the-up-direction dept.

Vooch writes "Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy this evening that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online." I may not be smart enough to go to college, but at least I can pretend to have a Harvard eduction. I don't think that will be enough to get a gig as a Simpsons writer.

Outer Space has a Smell 274

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @11:16AM
from the anosmia-sucks-in-space-too dept.

repapetilto writes "ISS Science Officer Don Pettit reports in his journal that outer space gives off a smell best described as "a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation." Kind of odd considering smell is supposed to be due to volatilized chemical compounds."

+ - Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t'-> 0

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micahfk

on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @08:57PM

micahfk writes "It took them this long to recognize the word?

Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t." "W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.
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+ - Yahoo Can't Cope with Cyber Monday-> 0

Submitted by

micahfk

on Monday November 26, 2007 @08:16PM

micahfk writes "CNBC notes that Yahoo is having a problem on Cyber Monday saying,

On a day that's arguably one of the most important for online shoppers during the holiday shopping season, the so-called "Cyber Monday," Yahoo's shopping and transaction algorithm appears to be down. For a company that hosts three million small and medium online businesses, this is a problem that could send sizeable ripples through the online economy.
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+ - THQ Frontlines Fuel of War Alternate Reality Game-> 0

Submitted by

micahfk

on Monday November 19, 2007 @06:44PM

micahfk writes "THQ is running an alternate reality game in advance of its Frontlines: Fuel of War game due out Spring of 2008. The game has ten clues that need to be solved giving the person a chance to win a top gun experience (real-live dogfighting) at Air Combat USA. The site begins with a person looking for help to hack the web and solve the riddles:

Why is Exeo Incorporated keeping Countdown to War a secret? Help me hack the web for the ten passwords that will unlock the truth and qualify to win a trip to Air Combat USA's top gun school, plus a free copy of Frontlines: Fuel of War.
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+ - New Tool Automates Webmail Account Hijacks-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:35PM

An anonymous reader writes "A pair of software tools demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference today automate the interception of cookie files transmitted over a wireless network that allow attackers to hijack accounts for Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook and a number of other Web 2.0 services, washingtonpost.com's Security Fix reports. From the story: "the attack works even if victims subsequently change their passwords, or actively sign out of their accounts. However, attackers would be unable to change the victim's password, as all of the above-named services force the user to reenter the current password before changing it to a new one.""
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