leehanxue - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Ever really screwed up badly?

Submitted by

dantynan707

on Monday April 09, 2012 @05:50PM

dantynan707 writes: "I'm writing a story for a well known tech site about times when geeks screwedup. I am seeking humorous/instructive stories from the /. faithful who are willing to share with me about the times they or someone they worked with screwed the pooch bigtime. Total anonymity is offered if asked. Can you share this with the masses? Thank ye."

Submission + - Stop Blogger Blogs Redirection To Country Specific Domains (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09, 2012 @05:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: Most Bloggers knew that recently Google redirects blogger blogs their respective Country code TLD’s. You can stop this country specific redirection for your blogger blog by using a JavaScript code.

Comment We need thieves, arsonists, rapists and murderers (Score 2) 56

by leehanxue on Thursday March 15, 2012 @04:47AM (#39361889) Attached to: Internet Crime Focus of Black Hat Europe

... so that the fire brigade, police and other law enforcement officers will not be out of work.

Submission + - Google testing experimental devices (cbslocal.com)

Submitted by kodiaktau on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @01:29AM

kodiaktau writes: Google is testing new experimental devices in employee homes. The company has applied for an experimental license with the FCC.

It is possible that the testing is related to the android@home framework, including interfacing with home appliances. Alternatively this could be another incarnation of Google TV, but nothing specific has surfaced yet.

Submission + - Yahoo Ousts Half Its Board (itworld.com)

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itwbennett

on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:32PM

itwbennett writes: "Yahoo's restructuring continued Tuesday with the ouster of 4 board members, including chairman Roy Bostock, according to an IDG News Service report. The move follows the resignation of Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang in January and gives investors something they'd been calling for, says analyst Greg Sterling: 'Investors have felt for a long time that the board was just rubber stamping what the leadership was doing. They want a reinvigorated board with some independence. People will wait to see what's different but I think this will be seen as a positive.'"

Submission + - Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit Facebook (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @08:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: I always thought the Facebook metrics of active users were unbelievably high. Turns out, Facebook considers you an active user even if you don't visit the platform and log in.

From the article: In other words, every time you press the “Like” button on NFL.com, for example, you’re an “active user” of Facebook. Perhaps you share a Twitter message on your Facebook account? That would make you an active Facebook user, too. Have you ever shared music on Spotify with a friend? You’re an active Facebook user.

Submission + - Solar cell with 114 percent quantum efficiency cre (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by

leehanxue

on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @05:51AM

leehanxue writes: "Using a process called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG), scientists from US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) create solar cell with 114 percent quantum efficiency. Full paper (subscription)."

Submission + - Brad Pitt took the kids to see 'Hugo' and almost r (breakingnews24hrs.net)

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johnnews

on Sunday November 27, 2011 @01:40PM

johnnews writes: "Pitt, 47, took four of his children with Angelina Jolie — Brad Pittx, 10, Pax, 8, Zahara, 6, and Shiloh, 5 — to see the 2:00 showing of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, starring Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jude Law."

Submission + - Wanna play rough? - California Laws Relgulating Pe (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

MyUniqueDot

on Sunday November 27, 2011 @12:40PM

MyUniqueDot writes: "The Thanksgiving evening pepper spray incident at a Los Angeles area Wal-Mart raised the bar on "shop 'til you drop." The woman responsible for this has turned herself in to police, but they are still mulling charges. If she is charged, California has specific statutory provisions related to pepper spray offenses. If she is charged, she just might be in big trouble. This article sets out, in brief, the relevant statutory provisions, and has a neat little video from "Scarface" that sets the tone . . ."

Submission + - Printing a human kidney (printerdiary.com)

Submitted by

jummamaster

on Sunday November 27, 2011 @12:36PM

jummamaster writes: "At a TED conference in March 2011 Surgeon Anthony Atala showed the audience a standard HP printer printing a human bone, which was then implanted in a patient in need of a new one. I would call that amazing, however his revealing that they're working on a sort of a giant flatbed scanner that would operate while the patient is lying flat on a bed. And their game plan is to scan an injured area, and then 'print' a repair directly onto the human body."

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