ynohoo - Slashdot User

Comment No COBOL? (Score 1) 360

by ynohoo on Friday October 12, 2012 @07:57AM (#41629335) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Approach To Reenergize an Old Programmer?

Curious how you managed to avoid COBOL, did you believe all the "COBOL is dead" propaganda? There are still plenty of well-paid COBOL contracts out there, your Assembler experience may be relevant.

Comment no debug under Win7 for older IDE's (Score 1) 879

by ynohoo on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @11:20AM (#38585034) Attached to: What's Keeping You On XP?

We support products written in a couple of older versions of Delphi, which cannot run debug under Windows 7. There are no plans that I know about to transfer these products to a later version of Delphi, and the released products run under Windows 7. So we will need to keep XP installations around for the foreseeable future to support these products.

Comment keep your stinking abstractions... (Score 1) 369

by ynohoo on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @10:29AM (#37907342) Attached to: Rethinking the Nature of Files

away from my data!

Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 821

by ynohoo on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @09:39AM (#37386366) Attached to: Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method

price of a incandescent bulb: 50c
price of a neon replacement: $5

Are you lucky enough to have never had less than five bucks in your pocket?

Comment Re:Notepad (Score 1) 545

by ynohoo on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:21AM (#36433580) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul?

Web-designers will throw their hand up in horror, but good old HTML2 frames still work just fine, just be careful about escaping the frame when linking out of the site. See sig for example. HTML2 is also readable by mere mortals, a feature which later versions have endevoured to remove.

Comment the French... (Score 1) 85

by ynohoo on Monday May 23, 2011 @07:24PM (#36223032) Attached to: Wikipedia Edits Around the World

did they leave them out just to annoy them?

UK ID Card Scheme Data Deleted For £400K 149

Posted by timothy on Friday January 21, 2011 @06:09AM from the mere-pocket-change dept.

DaveNJ1987 writes "It will cost the British government only £400,000 to destroy the data for its failed ID card initiative. The data compiled by the National Identity Register, which was scrapped last year by the coalition government, will be disposed of for the relatively small sum — in government figures — Home Office minister Damian Green confirmed."

IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees 266

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:03PM from the not-unique-to-IT dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A refreshing dose of sanity, It Management Fail: Always Blame the Worker Bees counters Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad, which advocates the usual reactive and punitive Big Brother measures for keeping those icky, untrustworthy IT staffers in line. Management really needs to look in the mirror when IT screws up."

The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn 1073

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 06, 2011 @12:35PM from the but-there's-a-bad-word-in-it dept.

eldavojohn writes "Over a hundred years after the death of its author, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be released in a censored format, removing two derogatory racial slurs: 'injun' and 'nigger.' The latter appears some 219 times in the original novel but both will be replaced by the word 'slave.' An Alabama publisher named NewSouth Books will be editing and censoring the book so that schools and parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America. The Forbes Blog speculates that e-readers could provide us this service automatically. Salon admirably provides point versus counterpoint while the internet at large is in an uproar over this seemingly large acceptance of censorship as necessary even on books a hundred years old. The legendary Samuel Langhorne Clemens himself once wrote, 'the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter,' and now his own writing shall test the truth in that today."

Comment EA finished says single-player gamers (Score 1) 439

by ynohoo on Friday December 10, 2010 @06:51AM (#34512556) Attached to: Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec

Who cares about their retarded business model? I cannot recall the last EA game I bought. Not that I didn't buy one, it just wasn't memorable.

Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized 429

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:53PM from the I-feel-safer-already dept.

kaptink writes "The self proclaimed hacker that waged a DDoS attack on Wikileaks has been arrested and has had all his equipment seized. What is interesting is that local police conducted the raid and not a federal authority such as the FBI. The Jester (th3j35t3r) who has a reputation for attacking websites he disagrees with is said to be trying to raise $10,000 in expected lawyers fees. If anyone is going to be alight in the whole Wikileaks debacle, its going to be the lawyers. Personally I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look 'leet' deserves to have their computer confiscated."

Comment Re:Aussies IT Directors Retarded (Score 1) 179

by ynohoo on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @08:49AM (#34402940) Attached to: Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down

So where is the free PDF editor? Never mind, there isn't one.

Who wants dead tree format anyway? Most times I follow a link and discover the content is PDF, I give it a pass. If you want to publish on the web, use HTML.

Comment Re:From the No-shit-sherlock department (Score 4, Interesting) 716

by ynohoo on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @02:19PM (#34320720) Attached to: Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats

A hypothesis is that dogs became domesticated through captured wolf cubs being trained, whereas cats started hanging out with humans when we started storing grain and they found a ready supply of rodents. Cats got used to being around humans, rather than being actively domesticated.

Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality 223

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, 2010 @12:37PM from the your-teleporter-concept-will-need-a-redesign dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Research in today's issue of the journal Science helps explain why quantum theory is as weird as it is, but not weirder. Ex-hacker Stephanie Wehner and physicist Jonathan Oppenheim showed that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle sets limits on Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance.' Wired reports that the discovery was made by 'thinking of things in the way a hacker might' to uncover a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics (abstract, supplement). Oppenheim describes how uncertainty and nonlocality are like coding problems, enabling us to make a quantitative link between two of the cornerstones of quantum theory."

UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' 213

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 13, 2010 @07:50AM from the this-campaign-can't-bomb dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tweeters have joined forces to support Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for a Twitter message threatening to blow up an airport. A so-called 'I'm Spartacus' campaign encouraging users to 're-tweet' his words has also become a huge hit. The hashtag #IAmSpartacus is currently the number one trending topic on Twitter in the UK, with #twitterjoketrial in second place. Chambers is believed to be the first person convicted in the UK for posting an offensive tweet. After the hearing, actor and Twitter fan Stephen Fry tweeted that he would pay Chambers' fine. Comedian Dara O'Briain tweeted that the verdict was 'ludicrous' while Peep Show actor David Mitchell said it was 'punishment for flippancy.'" I suspect not as many people will re-tweet on behalf of Garreth Compton.

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