JavaJack - Slashdot User

Comment Hooray for Wal-Mart (Score 1) 455

by JavaJack on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @03:08PM (#20308791) Attached to: Wal-Mart Ditches DRM, Keeps Censorship

I'm not sure you should even call this censorship. I'm sure these recordings are available in their original corrupt(ed|ing) version from other outlets. I don't appreciate the way in which pop culture is corrupting our language and making it seem acceptable to use the F-word, et al in everyday speech. Its disappointing to hear such speech coming from the mouths (and fingers) of people that are in other ways decent.

Those who don't have the level of intelligence necessary to use descriptive language and have to resort to meaningless expletives, have questionable intelligence.

If I owned Walmart, I would not feel comfortable offering products that contain offensive language. Better to offer the "censored" versions than not at all I suppose.

As for those who have never shopped there, what do you have against saving money? I would say that those who are not willing to save money also have questionable intelligence.

Journal Journal: Cross-browser chaos

Journal by athloi on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @02:12PM

Although it is trendy to think poorly of IE these days, and Microsoft's ongoing security woes make me unwilling to run it, I am thankful to it because it delivered me and others from Netscape.

Back in the day, before most of you had put up your first webpages, first Mosaic, and then Netscape, were required browsers. When Microsoft came out with Spyglass-IE, I at first resisted it, thinking myself clever for fighting corporate tyranny.

Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" 332

Posted by kdawson on Thursday August 16, 2007 @04:49PM from the negative-entropy-abounding dept.

reezle writes "An international team has discovered that, under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organized into helical structures. These structures can interact with one another in ways that are usually associated with organic compounds and with life. Not only do these helical strands interact in a counterintuitive way in which like can attract like, but they also undergo changes that are normally associated with biological molecules, such as DNA and proteins, say the researchers. For example, they can divide to form two copies of the original structure. These new structures can also interact to induce changes in their neighbors. And they can even evolve into yet more structures as less stable ones break down, leaving behind only the fittest structures in the plasma. 'These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter,' said the lead researcher. 'They are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve.'" The research, published in the New Journal of Physics, was carried out using a computer model of molecular dynamics.

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