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Comment Re:Ouch (Score 1) 849

by Grizzlysmit (#26480223) Attached to: South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity

fuck, now i have to go to the fucking state house and tell Sanford and all the other asshole to gtfo. Who's with me! Imagine, a bunch of Slashdotters holding up signs that say Get the Fuck out. I hate living in this state with these fucking retards. Fuck!

Hmmm I hate profanity, but I really cannot see how I or anyone else has the right to enforce that on anyone else.

Comment Re:Language evolves - deal with it (Score 1) 333

by Grizzlysmit (#26298363) Attached to: Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon

Americans leave out the "u" in colour, armour, neighbour, etc. We no longer pronounce "night" as [ni:xt] or [ni:t] (IPA). We could come up with a huge number of examples, but why bother? Language evolves over time, words lose or gain meaning. It's a natural process. You'd think an academic institution would understand this simple concept, but I guess grabbing headlines is more important than practicing proper academia.

Emoticons are just an evolution of a new language. It's actually quite extraordinary. We have now created symbols that can represent simple meanings cross-culturally and cross-linguistically, and these symbols are popularized in large part by the youth of the world. They are creating a whole new language right before our eyes. I wouldn't be surprised if we would soon be able to communicate simple messages between different cultures that speak different languages via symbols (some would argue we already can). It's a shame that institutions such as this one and the "get off my damn lawn" crowd are ridiculing such an extraordinary example of the human ability to adapt and break down communicative barriers.

Lake Superior State University what a bunch of mindless jerks lets hope their first to the wall when the revolution comes
The Internet

English Wikipedia Gets Two Millionth Article 125

Posted by kdawson from the tracking-the-milestone dept.
reybrujo writes to inform us of a milestone for the English-language Wikipedia: the posting of its two millionth article. At the time of this posting there is uncertainty over which article achieved the milestone. "Initial reports stated that the two millionth article written was El Hormiguero, which covers a Spanish TV comedy show. Later review of this information found that this article was most likely not two million, and instead a revised list of articles created around two million has been generated, and is believed to be correct to within 3 articles. The Wikimedia foundation, which operates the site, is expected to make an announcement with a final decision, which may require review of the official servers' logs."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Mobile phone causes medical equipment failure

Submitted by fredrikv
fredrikv writes: Dutch researchers report that using mobile phones near critical care medical equipment is dangerous and could switch off ventilators or disrupt pacemakers. They tested 61 medical devices were with GSM (GPRS data transfer) and UMTS (3G) radio signals commonly used with mobile phones. In total, 48 incidents were reported with 26 of the devices and one third of the incidents were hazardous or significant. The distance from antenna to the medical device was only 3 cm but one incident happened on a distance of 3 m. So don't go wireless while visiting the intensive care unit.
IBM

Submission + - Microsoft Forces IBM To Join OpenOffice Org Commun (efytimes.com)

Submitted by
victor77
victor77 writes: "[Breaking News] This extended support becomes significant at a time when there is an ongoing discussion over the ISO approval of Microsoft's competing format OOXML. The format has been rejected by the ISO committe and awaiting second round in February 2008. While OpenOfice.org's format ODF, which has strong backing of Sun and IBM, is already an ISO standard."
Sony

Submission + - Sony Introduces The Rolly?!? (fastsilicon.com)

Submitted by mrneutron2003
mrneutron2003 writes: Sony, purveyor of extremely expensive consoles and rootkits, has launched an interesting portable media player that just has to be seen to be believed. Is it too quirky for western markets? Perhaps. The following video does some justice to understanding what it is, and how freaky it is too. http://www.fastsilicon.com/off-the-wall/sony-intro duces-the-rolly.html
Google

Submission + - Google Local Business Referrals (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apparently anyone can sign up to get payed by Google going door-to-door to businesses. An interesting program. I haven't seen any publicity for this anywhere. Maybe it is a limited test, but you can sign up to be put on a waitlist today at http://www.google.com/local/referral/
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - iD and Valve violating GPL

Submitted by frooge
frooge writes: With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release.
Education

Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha 211

Posted by Zonk from the forbidden-dance dept.
theodp writes "Come Monday, no more Indiana University searches will be powered by computer-driven Google. Only by people-powered ChaCha. The move was announced by new IU President Michael McRobbie, who until recently sat on ChaCha's Board of Directors (5-29 SEC filing, PDF). IU will draft hundreds of librarians and IT employees to be ChaCha Guides for the university's websites, although a FAQ accompanying IU's press release tells librarians not to expect any checks for their efforts from ChaCha, which IU notes is backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Compaq founder Rod Canion."
Robotics

Submission + - Team to Use PS3,YDL in DARPA Urban Challenge

Submitted by
fistfullast33l
fistfullast33l writes: "While the PS3's Linux distribution has taken some hits for running inside a hypervisor that limits access to some hardware, the Axion Racing team has announced they will be using a PS3 running Yellow Dog Linux in their entry for the DARPA Urban Challenge in November 2007. "We felt having cars drive themselves was getting a little too easy, so we threw the Sony PlayStation into our bag of tricks," joked Bill Kehaly, Axion Racing's team leader. The PS3 will be in charge of examining information from an RGB road finding camera, and will be utilizing the Cell processor's multithreading capabilities to do so."
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - New Sci-Fi MMOG from Brazil looks promising... (taikodom.com)

Submitted by MadMax79
MadMax79 writes: It seems Brazilian start-up Hoplon (http://www.hoplon.com/) has been hard at work for the last 3 or so years creating a futuristic space-age MMOG which now looks very promising. The company has recently been featured in a Brazilian business magazine, and has the support of IBM. Apparently, a beta version of the game is available for those interested in testing. I have to say the graphics look very impressive... Check it out at http://en.taikodom.com/ ...
Security

Submission + - DDOS Hacker gets OWNED by Cannabis Culture Forums (digg.com)

Submitted by ArghMonkey
ArghMonkey writes: Looks like the hacker responsible for over 20 DDOS attacks on various sites, Eric Leech, finally has been exposed and through some internet investigation his name, picture, address, house picture, phone number etc. is available to the public. Suffered from a DDOS? Check out the link to see if you recognize the guy.

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