Mantaar - Slashdot User

Comment Re:George Orwell and Grammar! (Score 3, Informative) 587

by Mantaar on Thursday September 18, 2008 @06:14AM (#25052147) Attached to: Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled

Sorry, but you're so wrong, it's hilarious. Google for double negation and you shall see.

This has been in use for quite a while. I remember translating Cicero, and he used a lot of it, so it's at least 2000 years old.

Submission + - Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter (jhuapl.edu)

Submitted by Riding with Robots on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @05:54PM

Riding with Robots writes: No, it's not an accident due to a metric-to-English-units error. In February, the New Horizons probe passed through the Jupiter system on its way to Pluto, and we saw some spectacular pictures. Now, the science teams have published detailed scientific results, along with new images and movies. an overview is now online. The probe's instruments saw clouds form from ammonia welling up from Jupiter's lower atmosphere, and heat-induced lighting strikes in the polar regions, and fresh eruptions on the volcanic moon Io. New Horizons also captured the clearest images ever of the tenuous Jovian ring system, where scientists spotted clumps of debris that may indicate a recent impact inside the rings, or some more exotic phenomenon.

Submission + - Linux kernel v2.6.23 released (lkml.org)

Submitted by

diegocgteleline.es

on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @05:21PM

diegocgteleline.es writes: "After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, variable process argument length, SLUB is now the default slab allocator, SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support, the 'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall, lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new drivers and many other minor features and fixes — see the changelog for details"

Submission + - A campaign to block Firefox users (whyfirefoxisblocked.com) 5

Submitted by rarwes on Friday August 17, 2007 @03:32AM

rarwes writes: A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.

Submission + - Scientists discover how to erase memories (pressesc.com) 1

Submitted by

amigoro

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @10:48PM

amigoro writes: "Neuroscientists have discovered that long-term memories are not etched in a "clay tablet"-like stable form as once thought, but the process is much more dynamic, involving a miniature molecular machine that must run constantly to keep memories going, jamming the machine briefly can erase long-term memories."

Submission + - Orwellian 'Behavior Detection Officers' for TSA (msn.com) 1

Submitted by

Stanistani

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @06:29PM

Stanistani writes: "According to Newsweek, at US airports some security personnel will be observing passengers for facial expressions which indicate malicious intent. If they believe you look like you might be thinking of causing harm, you can be taken aside for further questioning. Welcome these new overseers: 'Behavior Detection Officers.' Their potentially life-changing decisions will be based on the pseudoscience of 'micro-expressions.'"

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