Comment: Re:BUYING SLASHDOT ACCOUNTS (Score 0) 1064
What about Anthropic Global Warming?
Global warming was made for us, specifically?
Comment: Re:java is shit (Score 1) 226
You have no idea what a mutex is, do you?
Comment: Trust? Fuck you. (Score 1) 312
All you give a shit about is shareholder value. That is all you are paid to care about.
Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro 780
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timothy
from the but-it-might-soon-be-awesome dept.
from the but-it-might-soon-be-awesome dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It turns out that Linux doesn't work too well on the Apple Retina MacBook Pro. Among the problems are needing special boot parameters to simply boot the Linux kernel, graphics drivers not working, no hybrid graphics support, WiFi requiring special firmware, Thunderbolt troubles, GNOME/Unity/KDE not being optimized for retina displays, and other snafus, including 20% greater power consumption with Linux over OS X. According to Michael Larabel, it will likely not be until early next year when most of the problems are ironed out for a clean 'out of the box' Linux experience on the Retina MacBook Pro."
Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? 1086
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timothy
from the let-me-inaccurately-count-the-ways dept.
from the let-me-inaccurately-count-the-ways dept.
An anonymous reader writes with a question that makes a good follow-on to the claim that mathematics requirements in U.S. schools unnecessarily limit students' educational choices: "I'm a high school student who is interested in a career in a computer science or game development related position. I've been told by teachers and parents that math classes are a must for any technology related career. I've been dabbling around Unity3D and OGRE for about two years now and have been programming for longer than that, but I've never had to use any math beyond trigonometry (which I took as a Freshman). This makes me wonder: will I actually use calculus and above, or is it just a popular idea that you need to be a mathematician in order to program? What are your experiences?"
Comment: Re: #1b: an Open UEFI Foundation for ALL DISTROS (Score 2) 521
And what if I want to run my own bootloader and kernel, on a machine I own?
Comment: Re:But ... (Score 1) 846
He was wearing full body armor
No, he wasn't. Check your facts.
He also indiscriminately sprayed fire from high powered automatic weapons
The
Comment: Re:Handmade weapons need paper work too. (Score 2) 846
It only needs markings that uniquely identify the lower before assembling it into a firearm. An unserialized lower by itself is simply an incomplete part (not illegal).
Comment: Re:It's no less (Score 1) 846
It's 80%, and yes, there is a "legal" standard for what 80% is.
Comment: Re:Not Dead Yet? (Score 5, Informative) 152
Answer: BS&F are still hoping for brazillions back, even though SCOG is broke.
A better question is, where did all the money go anyway? Novell never got paid the money that SCOG owed them.
Answer: Delaware bankruptcy court (specifically Judge Gross in this case) is utterly corrupt and broken. They siphon money away from creditors and towards lawyers, making sure that ALL creditors get stiffed, until there is no money left.
Why do you think incorporating in Delaware is so popular?
Comment: Re:heres to hoping (Score 1) 367
Your nexus s will be a useless brick when AT&T repurposes TMO's towers.
Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead 577
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samzenpus
from the silent-spring dept.
from the silent-spring dept.
Dan East writes "In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead in Arkansas yesterday. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them."
Comment: Re:Someone help me out here (Score 2, Insightful) 282
> Well, NAT saved us from a certain doom, and also provides extra security
NAT is a horrible hack. It might be a good solution for some things, but to fix the addressable space option, it is a disaster.
Talk about an almost entirely useless "broadcast" only Internet. Is that what you want?
> (might act as a firewall).
Even worse. I don't even want to begin to explain to you why you are wrong about this. The broad adoption of UPNP makes the idea that NAT provides you with a useful firewall complete idiocy....
If you want a firewall, make a firewall. Do not rely on NAT. Ever.
The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth 220
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Soulskill
from the return-fire dept.
from the return-fire dept.
astroengine writes "Yesterday morning, at 08:55 UT, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory detected a C3-class flare erupt inside a sunspot cluster. 100,000 kilometers away, deep within the solar atmosphere (the corona), an extended magnetic field filled with cool plasma forming a dark ribbon across the face of the sun (a feature known as a 'filament') erupted at the exact same time. It seems very likely that both eruptions were connected after a powerful shock wave produced by the flare destabilized the filament, causing the eruption. A second solar observatory, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, then spotted a huge coronal mass ejection blast into space, straight in the direction of Earth. Solar physicists have calculated that this magnetic bubble filled with energetic particles should hit Earth on August 3, so look out for some intense aurorae — a solar storm is coming."
+ - Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant -> 2
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gollum123
gollum123 writes "Earlier today we published an analysis of the top traffic drivers in social media, based on data from Web analytics company Woopra. The biggest traffic driver was StumbleUpon (51%), followed by Digg (30%), Hacker News (12%) and Reddit (5%). Surprisingly, tech news community Slashdot was not in the list of top referrers. In fact, according to Woopra CEO John Pozadzides, Slashdot "drives close to 0% of traffic to the sites Woopra measures." (emphasis ours). Why is Slashdot almost irrelevant to the social media community? It used to be the biggest driver of traffic to tech web sites, but now it hardly delivers any traffic at all to them. We explore some of the reasons, including input from our own community."
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