Comment Re:Isn't the world supposed to end soon? (Score 1) 409
I doubt there's a single year in human history that wasn't predicted as the one of final doom.
Doom was out a long time ago. You mean Duke Nukem Forever?
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Comment 3D dual n-back (Score 1) 381
n back is boring. And not adaptive enough. Someone make a fun version that is more adaptive.
I just found 3D dual n-back Speed Run. Makes it a bit more interesting.
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Comment Re:Honda Walking Assist (Score 4, Funny) 198
The Honda Walking Assist device has a rather unique and elegant design:
Unique, sure.. but elegant? It looks like that guy has a robot stuck up his ass.
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Comment Python (Score 3, Funny) 231
Comment For the record... (Score 2, Interesting) 32
.. and some karma whoring. Archive.org has a 1984 demo/interview with Budge on Computer Chronicles. A quick youtube search finds it here also. That guy from EA still creeps me out... as does the space shuttle guy.
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Comment Re:Looking at their photos... (Score 1) 232
They look more like homeless people. Which brings up the question - why aren't there more homeless people robbing banks out there?
Hi! You look like you could use some help. Here is my ATM card and my pin number. I'll give you $20 if you go take out $200 because I'm in a hurry filling up my gas tank.
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Comment Re:So, basically (Score 2, Funny) 307
So... Where'll we be in the future? Watch Idiocracy.
So like.. in the future... we'll be watching Idiocracy?
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Submission + - ReactOS on Intel and PowerPC Mac
frik85 writes: "ReactOS is an open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system. Today's interview features one of our network developer who also port ReactOS to PowerPC, Art Yerkes. ReactOS has run fine on Intel Macs for several weeks now. Beside other developers, Alex Ionescu fixed a lot of regressions lately. ReactOS 0.3.1 will be released soon, stay tuned. The website has been offline for two weeks due to a hardware problem. Everything is back online! Furthermore a new issue of the ReactOS Newsletter has been publish."
Submission + - Top 100 Domain Names That Wikipedia Links To
Imri writes: "The Zana Zen has an article about the top 100 domain names that Wikipedia links to. Interesting to note is that the distribution of the number of links obeys Zipf's law. Zipf's law plays a major role in the understanding of interent traffic (pdf)."
Submission + - Can Slashdot be Slashdotted?
Zekke writes: I was just wondering that since other sites get taken down by slashdotters does Slashdot.org ever get taken down by slashdotters? I think that makes sense...
Submission + - 100 facts we didn't know last year
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has a list of 100 things we didn't know last year. Among the many highlights:
27. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
14. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up.
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
23. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study.
27. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
14. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up.
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
23. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study.
Submission + - Organizing Linux programs in a new, logical way
Frosty Piss writes: "One of the things that drives Linux noobs crazy is the file system and how applications are installed within it. GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution that organizes the programs in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that's installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way."
Submission + - A medical open-source legal hell-hole
calcutta001 writes: To open-source or not to open-source was never in question as far as Steve Shreeve, founding CEO and largest shareholder of Medsphere Systems Corp., was concerned. So, this summer, Steve, self-proclaimed open-source software leader, and his twin-brother Scott, released the company's matured code on SourceForge under the GPL.
Their reward? They were then sued for $50 million by their company.
To be exact, they were hit by a $50 million, 12-count lawsuit charging them with misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of duty of loyalty, violations of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, commission of computer crimes, intentional interference with contract relations, unfair competition, and still more complaints by their company.
Follow the story here http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7891815881.html
Their reward? They were then sued for $50 million by their company.
To be exact, they were hit by a $50 million, 12-count lawsuit charging them with misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of duty of loyalty, violations of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, commission of computer crimes, intentional interference with contract relations, unfair competition, and still more complaints by their company.
Follow the story here http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7891815881.html
Submission + - Most important lines of code
r_accorsi writes: It is certainly true that world's basic infrastructures would collapse in case computers shutdown unexpectedly, thereby putting the whole humanity in danger, at least in certain regions. As computers are to-date responsible for keeping such services (and after all ourselves) alive, code is the ultimative matter. I would like to know which (classes of) lines of code are the key for our survival.
Submission + - The Internet vs. The Outspoken Racist, round 1 &am
fullphaser writes: "It would seem that the internet has had a bit of a debacle with the politics of the world. Hal turner is the owner of an online radio show which advocates violence against non white ethnic groups. Apparently the internet and this political group have had a scuffle, and the internet "won" per say; Hal Turner announced at 9:41 pm est via a live broadcast that he was no longer able to maintain the show after numerous exchanges of threats by both sides and a large DOS attack against Turner's site. Anyway legal president etc? eh slashdot?"
