thetorpedodog - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Presumably, all the Swedish researchers need (Score 5, Interesting) 367

by thetorpedodog on Thursday January 29, 2009 @07:07PM (#26660105) Attached to: Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit

But in the UK, if I'm not mistaken, the burden of proof lies on the accusedâ"that is to say, you have to prove that you're not being libelous (search the page for "burden of proof"). Asinine? Absolutely.

Comment: "The only fireproof way of safeguarding your data" (Score 5, Funny) 527

by thetorpedodog on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:48AM (#26370929) Attached to: "Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft

So...I don't want my data to somehow magically be restored when I throw an old hard disk into a fire? Where can I read more about this amazing data-recovery technology?

Comment: You know the economy is getting bad (Score 5, Funny) 405

by thetorpedodog on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @12:12PM (#26358539) Attached to: Apple's Life After Steve Jobs

...when even Apple is forced to consider the possibility of losing Jobs.

Comment: Re:Not news. (Score 1) 301

by thetorpedodog on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @09:33AM (#26341909) Attached to: Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs?

Actually, Twitter's support tools got hacked. That was in addition to the ongoing phishing scam.

Comment: Re:Darcs vs. Git (Score 1) 277

by thetorpedodog on Sunday January 04, 2009 @11:31PM (#26325735) Attached to: Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

As a comparatively new Hg user, I can't address all of these criticisms, but I can tell you that the Mercurial revision number is not the canonical identifier, in fact it is the SHA hash. The revision number is just a quick shortcut so you can remember revisions easily in the short term, and can be messed up by merges.

+ - The human race is likely to split into two races 5

Submitted by Colin Smith on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @08:44PM

Colin Smith (2679) writes "
Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm

Presumably most Slashdot readers are already in the process of evolving into Morlocks."

+ - Google assists Indian goverment censorship

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:35PM

An anonymous reader writes "Google's Orkut has made a deal to provide IP addresses of posters of content deemed objectionable by Bombay police. They object to, among others, posts against certain Indian personalities, young women admiring Indian mobsters, and, amazingly, "anti-Indian words" (!)."

+ - McAfee says Vista's StickyKeys could be misused

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday March 12, 2007 @04:43PM

Anonymous Coward writes "A Windows feature designed to simplify computing for disabled users could be misused in Vista, a McAfee researcher reported Monday. Attackers could use this feature, called StickyKeys, to trick a user into launching unauthorized software on the Vista machine. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031207-mcafe e-says-vistas-stickykeys-could.html"

+ - Making a Living from open source (a year later)

Submitted by

asimbaig

on Monday March 12, 2007 @03:41PM

asimbaig writes "Its been over a year since I last posed a question on whether its "really" possible to make a decent living building open source software. I got a lot of good feedback from slashdotters and the open source community. I thought I would provide an update on our experience. In one short year, CATS, our open source Applicant Tracking System has become the number one ATS in the market including commercial packages. We didn't have any revenue last year and we didnt focus on it either since we were too busy building the sofware. We started selling the hosted solution this year and have sold about 100 seats in 2 months bringing us $3000/month in recurring revenue. We just signed an OEM / Source Code license agreement with a large company for $200k. I expect to sell 4-5 of these OEM deals this year. I think making CATS open source played a significant role in our success to date....Marketing."