It also affected W2K3 servers.

And no one who was paying attention to the original details of the story are surprised.

Sorry, I misunderstood you then. You are entirely correct that no matter where you come down on the issue of copyright infringement, it's not something that the ethics board would mess with.

It is axiomatic that humans can dual-task well? Since when? Citation needed. In fact University of Utah researcehrs that is the rare 2.5% of the population that can truly "supertask" two activities without any loss in efficinecy. For example, drive and talk on a mobile. Citation needed?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/only-a-few-can-multi-task/?ref=technology

Of course I could. But then I couldn't use his app, which I might like. Plus, I don't want Flash to even get it's foot in the door on the iPhone. It's bad enough on a Macintosh.

Haha, "Safari" jacket.

I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are that we had to look up money laundering in a dictionary.

/Office space

Sometimes its nice to know that while most of us actually work our jobs and do them very well, some companies like sun employ people where their only job is to screw the company and its employees for money they don't deserve.

I think it depends on your "style" of perception. If you're a tactile or kinetic person (like me) the chips are more "real." If you're primarily visual, the value on the screen might seem more "real." For example, when I buy something expensive at the store, if I just swipe my debit card, I know internally how much I spent because I can see the total, but it doesn't resonate with me like it does if I have to open my wallet and count the twenties, and then hand a big stack of them over.

The way things are going, the ability to make a decent hand axe or scraper will serve our children well.

Apple doesn't advertise Cocoa. It runs faster, and is less buggy. Users notice that, you'd be sure.

Some poor lost Mac soul braggin' on Windows 7. Thought I'd seen everything.

Godiva's alright. If you really want to go for the gold, I ordered a box of chocolates from Fran's. The dark chocolate, gray salt caramels were very well received.

I'm sure that this is as much a possibility as reporting a bogus security flaw to a software company. It wouldn't take long for a proper chemist to determine that what they were testing wasn't the real thing. On the up side, it could mean more science jobs and thus more of a push for better geeky ed in public schools.

Someone should tell him about the n900 w/ Maemo5. Now THERE'S a good OS. Not quite as good as pure debian... but much better than Android. Unless of course Linus WANTS to port gitk (or any other GUI tool) to the Android GUI library instead of well... just _running_ it.

So? My parents introduced me to Robert Heinlein at about that same age. If anything, he was more of a libertarian old coot than Rand. Just possibly a little more subtle. And I grew up to be a programmer too. Go figure.

(Of course, the Slashdot audience is heavily self-selected towards computer professionals, so that doesn't mean much.)