Seems to me the same arguments could be made for the "expert witnesses" (and if you take the Climate-Change-will-destroy-humanity crowd at their word, the cost-benefit analysis as well) in the AGW debate.

Ahem! Some of us like it up here in Alaska. Of course, if there's a decent chance that it would warm things up a bit, I think we can deal. We're a tough bunch, after all.

This is really nice! Finally a multi-user replacement for microsoft project :D
I'm going to try it out today :D Not that slashdot cares :)

Could sub every "trac" in that post with "redmine" and it'd be the same thing.

I like the feel of redmine more than trac, but that's just about the only difference.

I do wish redmine had a more robust bug tracker. Some of the features that bugzilla has would be nice specifically this one (Yes I'm shamelessly pushing my bug on slashdot in the hopes that someone with more time than I have will get 'er done :D

Heh. Learn something new every day. I guess I should actually log into facebook in a browser some times. I've been interacting with it through 3rd-party apps on the desktop and iPhone so far - they don't give me those options (that I've been able to see).

I swear, if I see another post about one of my "friends" finding a little lost duckling or sheep or whatever on my facebook feed I'm going to start making heavy use of the "unfriend" feature. If you want to play your game, fine, but PLEASE facebook, give me the ability to turn off notifications from stupid games like that! I might even try playing it if I wasn't so annoyed by all the crap it spews onto my facebook page and worried that I'd annoy my friends and family in turn - that and I don't trust ANY applications interacting with my facebook account.

No, I don't want that drink, poke, hug, heart, angel, bush or whatever. Thanks all the same, especially not when I have to click a button to give it access to my account. Yes, I'm paranoid.

Funny how the most retarded redneck with a windows box can find people hosting Kiddie Porn but the FBI et al can't do the same...

Well, the book is called "Service Oriented Architecutres with Java."
If you're concerned about interoperability, then you will obviously test with other languages. But if you're building multiple services in your company/business for your use, and you're all using Java, then I don't see any reason to use another language. Although, I'd prefer to use OSGi as then you avoid the whole XML thingy.

I'm not certain that's correct. Aluminum will burn http://www.g2mil.com/aluminum.htm
So you've got ice there also, and when it vaporizes, it's adding more oxygen and hydrogen to the fire, thus keeping it burning, since in space, you don't have enough of those.

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/
Just turn on encryption in your favorite torrent client, and only allow encrypted connections. In combination with the Distributed Hash Table, Magnet Links, and Peer Exchange, an entirely decentralized file sharing system will work

I think that might be part of the reason I don't like Eclipse. I don't get the functionality I want without customizing the crap out of it. That might be useful for some, but not for me. I like power, but I also like convention, so long as it follows the convention I use.

I think that's fairly non-committal, which is what the slashdot summary stated.
Most of the comments state that they're missing out on something by not throwing their full weight behind Netbeans.
Then again, Oracle could just be waiting to see what they're gonna do...

Hmm, as a java development platform (and as a C/C++ development IDE) it is unrivaled by Eclipse. Things seem to work so much smoother in netbeans. You don't have to configure the shit out of it to use it. Most stuff follows the convention over configuration principle. At least that's the way it seems to me
Every time I use eclipse I'm surprised at the exceptional amount of options there are to do something simple. I rarely use them. Most of the options could be done with a couple bits of typing anyway.
As for the RCP stuff, I don't particularly care about that. I think eclipse has the upper hand in that stuff, as that's what it was designed to be in the first place, unlike Netbeans, which was designed to be a Java IDE.