Duncan3 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Precious Snowflakes (Score 1) 1316

by Duncan3 on Sunday March 15, 2009 @10:07PM (#27205623) Attached to: Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace?

And it NEVER will. Grade matter only to those _in_ school. Even if you go to grad school, getting in will be the last time anyone cares.

After that, it's about what you have done and know about the real world.

Comment Bull... (Score -1, Flamebait) 830

by Duncan3 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @05:33PM (#27157577) Attached to: Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4

The file system isn't writing data it claims to have written, that means it's deliberately lying, which is different then a bug.

The "web 2.0" idea that being right most of the time doesn't cut it in the real world. People may put something more important then a tweet on a file system.

Optimize the reads all you want, but those writes better damn well happen before the calls that say data is written return.

Comment Only 1.000? (Score 3, Interesting) 148

by Duncan3 on Friday January 09, 2009 @11:17PM (#26395343) Attached to: AMD Plans 1,000-GPU Supercomputer For Games, Cloud

Folding@home is at 1.007 PFLOPS of just ATI GPUs :)

(which is an entirely different sort of "computer", but still)

Submission + - Forensics Expert says Al-Qaeda Images Altered

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:33PM

WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some veeeeeery interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images that our government loves to show off.

From the article: "Krawetz was also able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners (IntelCenter is an organization that monitors terrorist activity and As-Sahab is the video production branch of al Qaeda) were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says." Why would Al-Qaeda add an IntelCenter logo to their video? Why would IntelCenter add an Al-Qaeda logo? Methinks we have bigger fish to fry than Gonzo and his fired attorneys... }:-) The article contains links to Krawetz's presentation and the source code he used to analyze the photos.

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