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Comment Resurrecting Technocrat.net (Score 5, Interesting) 2219

by Bruce Perens (#46181625) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

Hi,

So, it is tempting to resurrect Technocrat.net now that Slashdot stinks worse than the last two times I shut down technocrat.net .

If you remember, we didn't get very many readers. We didn't get them because not enough people submitted usable articles.

As it happens, we don't just need a better Slashdot. We need a replacement for Groklaw. And I personally would be happier reading something with the absolute minimum of Javascript except perhaps in the submission editor. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.

I know that I can do it technically, and I have the server, and Cloudflare should be able to help me handle the load. But if it is like last time, and my wife observes that I'm talking to the same dozen guys all of the time, it's not going to work.

What do you think?

Comment Re:Maybe most women don't want to go into tech (Score 1) 545

by SensitiveMale (#46178029) Attached to: Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source

Is it social bias or is it just the way things are? Building toys that boys like and marketing them to boys isn't "social bias." Same things with toys for girls. The whole bullshit about "social bias" is that boys and girls are equal in every way and think, act, and prefer in the exact same way until "society" forces blue on boys and pink on girls. Total bullshit.

Submission + - Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps

Submitted by cartechboy
cartechboy writes: Speeding is against the law, and yes, even going 5 mph over the speed limit is breaking the law. But everyone does it, right? You do it, your friends do it, heck, your grandmother does it. But what about when you see a cop? Some cops are ticketing people for notifying fellow motorists about speed traps. In Florida, Ryan Kintner simply flashed his high-beams to warning oncoming cars that there was a cop ahead. He was given a ticket for doing so. He went to court to fight the ticket, and a judge ruled that flashing lights are the equivalent of free speech, thus he had every right to flash his lights to warn oncoming cars. So what have we learned here? Basically, if you are a good Samaritan, flash your lights and warn oncoming traffic of speed traps, because this is America , and we are allowed freedom of speech.

Submission + - BOINC loosing momentum and scientists fears increased costs (nature.com)

Submitted by Kenseilon
Kenseilon writes: "The family of ‘@home’ volunteer computing projects is growing ever more diverse. Spare time on a personal computer can now be donated to anything from finding alien life to crunching climate models or processing photos of asteroids. But enthusiasm is waning. The 47 projects hosted on BOINC, the most popular software system for @home efforts, have 245,000 active users among their 2.7 million registrants, down from a peak of about 350,000 active users in 2008." Only IBM's World Community Grid defied this trend.

David Anderson, the founder of BOINC, provides many explanations for the drop. BOINC has failed to target a broader demographic, the media coverage has decreased and a shift of mobile devices has changed the playing field. There is now a fear that this will make running computer simulations more expensive.
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Comment Re:I request a clarification (Score 2) 52

by pudge (#46123063) Attached to: I'm sure the detractors will revise their opinions

You're really quite late to the party, troll. People had suggested quite some time ago that Pudge was a script. Hell I accused him directly of being a script last January. Granted I called him "Pudge-script" rather than PudgeScript but nonetheless the idea is not new to this year.

The thing is that you don't criticize me when you accuse me of being a script. Predictability in argument is generally a virute, as far as I am concerned. If you lie, I point it out. If you make a reasonable argument, I respond to it (as I have in the past, though rarely; even though you consistently lie and say I never do). And you're predictable too: not only will you lie often, but you will never, ever, ever even attempt to back up your lies about me.

So yes, please continue to point out that I predictably call you a liar when you lie. I am unbothered by this.

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