Bob Wehadababyitsabo - Slashdot User

Comment Re:They suck at math too (Score 1) 412

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Thursday December 17, 2009 @08:17PM (#30481542) Attached to: BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice

The MLA would disagree with you -- I don't have my Handbook with me, but according to Purdue's OWL (which matches the MLA Handbook point for point): "Put commas and periods within quotation marks, except when a parenthetical reference follows."

Comment New York City (Score 1) 920

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Friday December 11, 2009 @01:53PM (#30404422) Attached to: The best pizza I have ever had, I found ...

The birthplace of modern pizza (among other things). Lombardi'stalks a big game but is definitely worthy of its reputation.
Pretty hard to go wrong with pizza in NYC in general -- even most of the "Famous" "Original" "Ray's" serve up a pretty decent slice. None of that deep dish bullshit for me, thankyouverymuch.

Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing 230

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @06:01PM from the if-I-want-bing-I-will-type-bing dept.

Jaeden Stormes writes "We just started getting word of a new browser hijack from our sales force. 'Some site called Bing?' they said. Sure enough, since the patches last night, their IE6 and IE7 installations are now routing all NXDOMAINs to Bing. Try it out — put in something like www.DoNotHijackMe.com." We've had mixed results here confirming this: one report that up-to-date IE8 behaves as described. Others tried installing all offered updates to systems running IE6 and IE7 and got no hijacking.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.

Submission + - Intel Agrees to Purchase Wind River Systems

Submitted by

chill

on Thursday June 04, 2009 @10:05AM

chill writes: "Intel agreed to purchase software company Wind River Systems Inc. for about $884 million, part of an effort to move beyond personal computers. Wind River's primary product is VxWorks, the real-time operating system popular with mission-critical, embedded systems."

Comment Re:Mostest importanly... (Score 2, Informative) 209

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Friday May 15, 2009 @08:22PM (#27974601) Attached to: How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages

There are automatic page turning machines that use puffs of air and a stylus to move through a book.

Comment Re:But where does all that money go? (Score 2, Informative) 469

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @11:45AM (#27938673) Attached to: Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU

They must put the funds in escrow until they have settled their final appeals. The float on $1.5 billion is significant, so they are out something regardless of their final verdict. "The company must write a bank guarantee for the fine right away, though that guarantee is held in a bank account until appeals are exhausted, a process that could take years." ref

Comment Re:jkhsad ass7e bcadjh (Score 5, Informative) 302

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:17PM (#27592921) Attached to: NYC Wants Ideas For "Taxi Technology 2.0"

This is actually already done and present in all New York City cabs. http://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+taxi+gps

Comment Re:I loved Gopher (Score 1) 239

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Saturday March 14, 2009 @05:50PM (#27195753) Attached to: How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web

Agreed, fuck Gopher. -- Bucky Badger

Comment Re:r-project.org (Score 1) 382

by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:48AM (#26368319) Attached to: The Power of the R Programming Language

This is hilarious.

Submission + - iPod as lighting rod? (wsj.com)

Submitted by Bob Wehadababyitsabo on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @09:36PM

Bob Wehadababyitsabo writes: The Wall Street Journal Health Blog writes about a fascinating medical case involving a jogger, his iPod, and a thunderstorm. "[...] witnesses said the poor guy was thrown eight feet by the electrical discharge. Both his eardrums were ruptured, and his jaw was broken. The first letter [to the New England Journal of Medicine], by doctors who treated the man at the hospital, argued that 'the combination of sweat and metal earphones directed the current to, and through, the patient's head.'" However, a letter in NEJM's Thursday issue disputes the original findings, instead suggesting the iPod earbuds served as a lighting rod, directing electricity away from the patients ears and head and toward his torso. The verdict from the second letter? "A final note on jogging in thunderstorms: much of the very interesting debate that has followed the publication of this case report would perhaps be unnecessary if common sense were as ubiquitous as the iPod."

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