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Comment Re:Insightful? (Score 5, Insightful) 217

by AciDLnx on Friday January 25, 2008 @06:33AM (#22179508) Attached to: Work Progressing on Army's Future Combat Systems

>> The software in question will never see the public Internet because it's all classified Secret and above.

This is incorrect. I've worked on FCS / SOSCOE. Specifically, integrating the current FBCB2 systems into FCS. Nothing was classified Secret. It was all just FOUO.

Submission + - At W3C : Public barred from 'public' conference (com.com)

Submitted by

xk0der

on Monday June 18, 2007 @11:46PM

xk0der writes: "The author: Declan McCullagh writes..
The World Wide Web Consortium, which purports to be an "open forum" for standards discussion, doesn't exactly live up to its own claims.
...
Danny Weitzner, one of the W3C's policy directors and event co-chair, repeatedly claimed in a followup telephone conversation that, by "public," the W3C actually means "closed to the public." Weitzner was the person who personally barred my colleague from entering the conference.
...
Read the full story Here"

Best Places To Work In IT 297

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 18, 2007 @08:30PM from the good-gigs dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld's annual summary of the best places to work in IT lists companies that excel in five areas of employment: career development, retention, benefits, diversity, and training. According to the scorecard, the top five retention methods are: competitive benefits; competitive salaries; work/life balance; flexible work hours; and tuition reimbursement. Of the top 100 companies, 64 expect the number of U.S.-based IT staffers to increase in 2007, on average by 7%. Here is the whole list. The top three are Quicken Loans, University of Miami, and Sharp HealthCare."

Submission + - Is cash no longer legal tender? (uic.edu)

Submitted by on Monday June 18, 2007 @05:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: I attend the University of Illinois at Chicago. Last semester my housing arrangements went smoothly. I put down my application fee, and my deposit just fine, got a room for the semester and life went on. This semester, because there was supposedly a large number of students who did not check into their rooms last semester, we were required to make a $100 prepayment, in addition to the application fee and deposit. No problem, I think, I see the university is trying to make a quick buck off people who don't follow through with their plans. Now I do NOT have a checking account, a credit card, or anything. I am one of the few people who do EVERYTHING in cash. I don't trust the banks, I don't trust credit card companies. I also had a trip planned for out of the country, so I get my cash, and on my way to the airport, I stop by the housing office to make my prepayment. They refuse to take cash. They will not charge my university account (so I can pay the bursar or whoever I need to) in cash, and they want a check or money order. Nowhere in their letter did they say that. I fear out of technicality I am going to loose my housing since I cannot get them their money on time because they do not take cash. Is it legal for a state-owned university, let alone any business to not take legal tender?

Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters 184

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 15, 2007 @10:43AM from the seeing-you-in-all-the-old-familiar-places dept.

brownsteve writes "Eastman Kodak Co. has unveiled what it says are 'next-generation color filter patterns' designed to more than double the light sensitivity of CMOS or CCD image sensors used in camera phones or digital still cameras. The new color filter system is a departure from the widely used standard Bayer pattern — an arrangement of red, green and blue pixels — also created by Kodak. While building on the Bayer pattern, the new technology adds a 'fourth pixel, which has no pigment on top,' said Michael DeLuca, market segment manager responsible for image sensor solutions at Eastman Kodak. Such 'transparent' pixels — sensitive to all visible wavelengths — are designed to absorb light. DeLuca claimed the invention is 'the next milestone' in digital photography, likening its significance to ISO 400 color film introduced in the mid-1980's."

Journal Journal: How to convince a government agency open source is safe?

Journal by deanlandolt on Friday June 15, 2007 @10:17AM

I'm contracting for a Government agency working out on an editor to help them add XML tags to what they're writing. As an open source advocate, rather than start from scratch I grabbed a copy of TinyMCE, which is LGPL'd, and started writing a few plugins to do the trick. Now that heading toward deployment, it looks like they may balk at the viral terms of the LGPL. This is an inhouse app that will only be available inside their network, so there's no "distribution" problems, right? To me, the

Journal Journal: Where are the open source counterparts to popular web apps?

Journal by edmicman on Friday June 15, 2007 @10:04AM

Open source has given us very competitive alternatives to some commercial powerhouses in software. Office suites (OpenOffice.org vs Microsoft Office), Image editing (GIMP vs Photoshop), web browsers (Firefox vs IE), instant messengers (Gaim/Pidgin, millions of others vs the standard clients), plus a ton of other apps, both standalone and web hosted. But where are the open source counterparts to popular commercial web apps? Specifically, I'm looking at email and image galleries.

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