Jooly Rodney - Slashdot User

Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks 323

Posted by timothy on Friday October 31, 2008 @11:36AM from the sobering-thought-about-checks-in-general dept.

Barence writes "You may be aware of Donald Knuth, the creator of TeX and author of The Art of Computer Programming, who used to post checks to anyone who spotted an error in one of his books — one hexadecimal dollar, or $2.56. No one cashed them though. This blogger has two of them proudly on his wall, but the sad news is that modern day bank fraud has put a stop to Knuth's much-loved way of keeping his books free of errors." (Here's Knuth's own post about the sad change.)

Comment Re:Screw Stallman, the AGPL , and Clipperz (Score 1) 156

by Jooly Rodney on Monday June 30, 2008 @12:32PM (#24002627) Attached to: RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud

You don't like the idea of giving away source code for free to people who are too lazy to do anything for themselves, so you prefer the BSD license over the GPL? That doesn't make any sense. The GPL expressly protects you from exploitation by the freeloaders you're complaining about. Please go back and read the terms of the licenses you're talking about.

Submission + - Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic Fields

Submitted by BoredStiff on Thursday September 27, 2007 @09:47AM

BoredStiff writes: In a story heard on NPR and reported in ScienceDaily reports that a new study finds that migratory birds can "see" magnetic fields. The findings from a current study by a research group from Oldenburg, Germany strongly supports the hypothesis that migratory birds use their visual system to perceive the reference compass direction of the geomagnetic field and that migratory birds are thus likely to "see" the geomagnetic field.

Microsoft Says iPhone Is Irrelevant To Business 435

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 20, 2007 @06:08PM from the is-it-not-supposed-to-be dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Microsoft exec has turned attack dog, lashing out at Apple's iPhone by saying the device isn't good for business. Why? Because the iPhone is 'a closed device that you cannot install applications on.' Specifically, he's talking about Microsoft Office. 'While the entry of the iPhone (with its cut-down version of Mac OS X) into this market offers new options for consumers, Sorenson believes user familiarity with the Windows Mobile interface — and the ease with which companies can buy and develop applications for the platform — will sustain its increasing popularity and help keep the iPhone out of the lucrative corporate market.'"

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