Comment Re:My submission (Score 1) 190
It wasn't your submission that was used. I shared it with the Slashdot author folks a few hours before you submitted. They penned their own writeup. :)
Submission + - Insects hold atomic clues about the type of habita (cam.ac.uk)
Submission + - How did WordPress win? (majordojo.com)
jamie writes: Byrne Reese discusses why WordPress beat Movable Type, and offers some insightful thoughts about licensing and the perception of "free." (I hope his impression that people think perl is "scary" isn't as common as he thinks.)
Submission + - isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-b (isolani.co.uk)
Submission + - Visceral Games hears disabled gamer, adding custom (joystiq.com)
Submission + - Adactio: Journalâ"Erase and rewind (adactio.com)
jamie writes: The BBC is planning to delete 172 websites.
Submission + - NASA - NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In (nasa.gov)
jamie writes: NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.
Submission + - The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tuni (theatlantic.com)
jamie writes: "Facebook's security team opens up, shedding light on a revolution that could become a parable for Internet activism"
Submission + - RealClimate: Getting things right (realclimate.org)
jamie writes: "'Last Monday, I was asked by a journalist whether a claim in a new report from a small NGO made any sense. ... The press response to their study has therefore been almost totally dominated by the error at the beginning of the report, rather than the substance of their work on the impacts. This public relations debacle has lessons for NGOs, the press, and the public.'"
Submission + - Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind (arstechnica.com)
jamie writes: "StarCraft, one of the most popular games ever made, also serves as the perfect proving ground for artificial intelligence. Here's the inside story of how a Berkeley team won the world's first StarCraft AI competition with code that can beat even pro-level human players."
Submission + - Tunisian dissident blogger takes job as minister | (guardian.co.uk)
jamie writes: "Slim Amamou and his fellow bloggers circulated news and videos in the name of protesting against the repressive regime"
Submission + - Turns out that music really is intoxicating, after (arstechnica.com)
jamie writes: "Our reaction to the music that we love stimulates the flow of dopamine into certain sections of the brain, concludes a new study out of McGill University. The findings "help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies," the scientists note."
Submission + - How long before apps overtake physical video game (asymco.com)
jamie writes: "Horace Dediu crunches some numbers and comes to a startling conclusion: 'If you look at the red line above and its slope, it would indicate that, given time, the App store will overtake the entire physical media gaming industry. The time when that happens will depend a lot on the growth or decline of the physical game media business, but another four years seems a safe bet.' This follows on the heels of some earlier analysis of apps per iOS device and what that steady upward growth means."
Submission + - Adobe's John Dowdell on Chrome Dropping H.264 (daringfireball.net)
Submission + - A New And Maybe Better Way To Stop People From Bei (gizmodo.com)
jamie writes: "The people running the video game League of Legends knew they had a problem. They had the same problem that makes much of the Internet unpleasant. Too many people were being jerks online. They're hatching a novel solution: citizen justice."
