Comment Re:Simpsons did it... (Score 3, Funny) 391
Heh. No one ever says Italy.
Comment Re:Would this be the place (Score 1) 334
My brother is an engineer at Boeing... he claims that this is the most screwed up engineering project in terms of cost in human history. I think he has a point.
I'm an engineer at Pratt & Whitney. I'll have to say that may be close, but Star Wars takes the cake.
Yes, that "Revenge of the Sith" was pretty abysmal.
Comment I use the holistic approach (Score 1) 520
I just follow someone who seem to know where they're going. I rarely end up where I want to, but I always get somewhere I need to be.
Comment Wing Commander remake (Score 1) 142
I'm all for it. Because if Wing Commander gets remade, and then sells well, possibly LucasArts will be inspired to do the same with the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series.
Comment Re:This Will End Badly (Score 4, Insightful) 296
And of those criminals, a significant percentage will be precisely the kind of criminals that take an interest in kids. Pedophiles naturally gravitate toward jobs and extracurricular activities where they know that they will have a lot to do with kids. How many of them are now given access to all the info they need to seek out the most vulnerable kids in their neighborhood?
Comment Re:Call a tow truck (Score 1) 160
Ah, but surely this is a great opportunity to show some rover spirit.
Um.
[crickets]
Um.
[crickets]
Physically-Challenged Gamer Hacks Together Custom PS3 Controller 50
Destructoid has a neat post about a gamer whose condition prevents him from using a standard video game controller. With the help of a company called GimpGear, which markets devices for people with limited mobility, he designed and built a custom input device that makes use of fingers, toes, and even sips or puffs of air to control his favorite games. Pictures and a video of the setup are both available in the post.
Submission + - SPAM: Animal dung and climate change
Roland Piquepaille writes: "As it is Sunday, it's time for a light story. According to a Northern Arizona University (NAU) news release, Jim Read is one of the world's foremost authorities on animal dung. In Been there, dung that, Mead says that 'although I don't think anyone is keeping track, I suspect we have the largest comparative animal dung collection in the world. If someone needs to identify dung, they send it to me.' And by analyzing the thousands of dung pieces in his collection, he has been able to detect the environmental changes that took place on the Colorado Plateau during the last 100,000 years. But read more for additional details and references."
Phishing Group Caught Stealing From Other Phishers 129
An anonymous reader writes "Netcraft has written about a website offering free phishing kits with one ironic twist — they all contain backdoors to steal stolen credentials from the fraudsters that deploy them.
Deliberately deceptive code inside the kits means that script kiddies are unlikely to realize that any captured credit card numbers also end up getting sent to the people who made the phishing kits. The same group was also responsible for another backdoored phishing kit used against Bank of America earlier this month."
Web Snapshots Are Nabbed for Commercial Uses 92
whoever57 writes "The Washington post has a story about Hollywood studios using photos grabbed off the web without permission. This particular story describes the case of a photo of a dog that was used by Fox. The photo had been uploaded to a personal blog and tagged 'all rights reserved.'"
Submission + - Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search &
frandr02 writes: "Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: "MSFT") today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: "FAST"), a leading provider of enterprise search solutions, through a cash tender offer for 19.00 Norwegian kroner (NOK) per share.
This offer represents a 42 percent premium to the closing share price on Jan. 4, 2008 (the last trading day prior to this announcement), and values the fully diluted equity of FAST at 6.6 billion NOK (or approximately $1.2 billion U.S.)."
Submission + - SPAM: Warner Blu-ray attack makes HD DVD success 'Highly
WirePosted writes: "Can HD DVD withstand the stunning news that Warner has ditched the format and has decided to issue movies from May 2008 on Blu-ray only?"
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Submission + - SPAM: Cancer and mobile phones: the warnings are getting
WirePosted writes: "There is now over a decade of research looking into the possible carcinogenic effects of radiation from cellphones. No conclusive link has been shown, but the evidence is mounting and calls for caution have ramped up sufficiently to suggest that there is now cause for serious concern."
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Submission + - What is the best web platform to learn? 2
GeekBoy writes: "I've been doing Linux and KDE programming for the last few years, however, lately I've been thinking about learning web application programming, AJAX, the whole bit. I have done limited web programming in PERL-CGI about 7 years ago, but I realize that things have changed drastically since then. I was looking at Ruby on Rails, but after seeing this post by an apparently prominent rails developer I'm not so sure... So I'm wondering if the Slashdot community can recommend a platform. My end goal is to write a large web application I've been thinking about for a while so it needs to be stable, scalable and secure."
Submission + - XML 2007 a year in review
An anonymous reader writes: 2007 was a productive year for XML. The most sound and fury focused around the standardization of office document formats. But if I had to pick the most important story of the year, I'd be hard pressed to choose between the continuing growth of XQuery, APP, and XForms. All have the potential to radically alter the software infrastructure that underlies the Web. This article looks at the significance of XML in 2007 and peeks forward at what the big stories will be in 2008.
