Comment Re:C++ version (Score 2) 624
I would rather go with a classic here:
The C Programming Language Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
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Comment Re:haha not a chance. (Score 1) 173
Maybe it's time to fork Java, and then go to court....
Comment Re:I for one (Score 1) 280
Can't wait for the mutants to emerge! Godzilla will have some serious contenders to play with.
Comment Re:Cooling canvas tents? (Score 1) 409
So we saved $184B! Nice!
Comment Re:Take up smoking today! (Score 1) 281
Actually, it only helps you gain weight the time you quit, to add to the weeks of withdrawal suffering (unless it kills you before this happens of course)
Comment Re:Sorry to sound apologetic... (Score 1) 427
There is a difference between getting access to information and use it properly. UN Fundamental statistical principle (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/statorg/FP-English.htm) or the US Title V Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency (CIPSEA - http://www.eia.doe.govosscipsea.pdf/ for example dictate what is deemed acceptable. You can commonly get access to data for "research or scientific" purposes but it is often explicitly forbidden to use it for re-identification or even commercial purposes. This is just was WSJ did: map data to individuals and publish it. So of course you can do it, but it doesn't mean it's right or even legal.
Comment Re:Sorry to sound apologetic... (Score 4, Insightful) 427
Ageer, this represents a serious breach of privacy. What would you think if your car location data would be publicly available? So anyone can basically know when/where you went? I have no problem if this you authorize to publish your data but not like this.
Comment Did this save Wikileaks? (Score 2, Funny) 112
Guess Wikileaks feels good about not being hosted there anymore.... their critical information could have been "lost" as well....
Comment Re:gold rush (Score 1) 163
Then wonder what slashdot.xxx would be worth
Comment Re:HP is the worst (Score 2) 243
If you're not too young, remember when stuff used to work with about 1 Mb of RAM? I can understand a 3.5Mb printer driver, but 200Mb to make it work smoothly? Do you realize how much code and data that is? OK, maybe half of that is dedicate to windows bug workaround but many developers have sadly been pampered by speedy processors and too much memory. They have lost sense of what code efficiency is about (expect for games, hight performance computing, and some other exception).
Submission + - Shotgun your hard drive... and recover your data (yahoo.com)
kulnor writes: Ever wanted to shoot your hard drive, submerge it for a few days, or throw it across the room, and still recover your data? Check this new rugged full metal jacket drive introduced at CES. Starts at $150, SSD version also available. Here is a youtube video of the shooting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaijC5jdP8
Comment Boxes on wheels? (Score 1) 223
They look like cereal boxes on wheels.... what's the top speed on these things? Can't wait for the first house crash headline.
'I Just Need a Programmer' 735
theodp writes "As head of the CS Department at the University of Northern Iowa, Eugene Wallingford often receives e-mail and phone calls from eager entrepreneurs with The Next Great Idea. They want to change the world, and they want Prof. Wallingford to help them. They just need a programmer. 'Many idea people,' observes Wallingford, 'tend to think most or all of the value [of a product] inheres to having the idea. Programmers are a commodity, pulled off the shelf to clean up the details. It's just a small matter of programming, right?' Wrong. 'Writing the program is the ingredient the idea people are missing,' he adds. 'They are doing the right thing to seek it out. I wonder what it would be like if more people could implement their own ideas.'"
Comment Re:Summary Fail (Score 1) 429
Snow Crash and the Seven Proxies?
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 742
Wait until he throws the iPhone down the stairs....
