Comment Teach the test (Score 1) 44
Actually using these as benchmarks would bring "teach the test" to a whole new level.
Comment Neat (Score 2) 103
Looks like fun but 12km really isn't very far, especially if you want to ride it to your destination and back, in which case you can only go places up to 6km away.
Comment And the NSA? (Score 4, Insightful) 223
What would the existence of an exascale supercomputer mean for today's popular encryption/hashing algorithms?
Comment I wonder... (Score 1) 277
If this had been done with Windows 8, would it have been successful? Or is Windows 8 so bad Microsoft couldn't give it away. What's keeping people in Windows 7 doesn't really seem to be the cost...
Comment Such is C (Score 0) 264
C Code EVERYWHERE has the most "ugly hacks"
Comment Re:isnt..... (Score 0) 176
"Ms." can be used for both married and unmarried women. You might be mixing it up with "Miss".
Comment So does this mean... (Score 2) 121
We get The Imitation Game 2?
Comment Re:women in science (Score 2) 218
And since this is Slashdot, Grace Murray Hopper deserves a mention for creating the first compiler.
Comment Re:Did he.. (Score 3, Interesting) 65
He did the widget-moving, but he also really wrote a real line of JavaScript.
Comment Show Her The Frozen Coding Lessons (Score 1) 584
Let her know that princesses are programming too now.
Comment What I want to know is... (Score 2) 78
How do you "safely Ebola" somebody? It sounds pretty dangerous to me.
Comment This was a good choice (Score 2) 125
Elsa is the perfect programming role model
- - She's creative enough to architect an ice palace on-the-fly.
- - She spends most of her life alone in her room.
- - She never has to worry about CPU overheats.
- - She's already great at creating AI (Olaf, Marshmallow).
- - She's rich enough to afford Bay Area rent.
Comment Re:If the goal is to interest girls in coding (Score 1) 125
Frozen is THE most popular thing with young girls right now. This isn't really disputable.
Submission + - In major shift, Firefox to use Yahoo search by default in US (cnet.com)
mpicpp writes: Google's 10-year run as Firefox's default search engine is over. Yahoo wants more search traffic, and a deal with Mozilla will bring it.
In a major departure for both Mozilla and Yahoo, Firefox's default search engine is switching from Google to Yahoo in the United States.
"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
The change will come to Firefox users in the US in December, and later Yahoo will bring that new "clean, modern and immersive search experience" to all Yahoo search users. In another part of the deal, Yahoo will support the Do Not Track technology for Firefox users, meaning that it will respect users' preferences not to be tracked for advertising purposes.
With millions of users who perform about 100 billion searches a year, Firefox is a major source of the search traffic that's Google's bread and butter. Some of those searches produce search ads, and Mozilla has been funded primarily from a portion of that revenue that Google shares. In 2012, the most recent year for which figures are available, that search revenue brought in the lion's share of Mozilla's $311 million in revenue.
In a major departure for both Mozilla and Yahoo, Firefox's default search engine is switching from Google to Yahoo in the United States.
"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
The change will come to Firefox users in the US in December, and later Yahoo will bring that new "clean, modern and immersive search experience" to all Yahoo search users. In another part of the deal, Yahoo will support the Do Not Track technology for Firefox users, meaning that it will respect users' preferences not to be tracked for advertising purposes.
With millions of users who perform about 100 billion searches a year, Firefox is a major source of the search traffic that's Google's bread and butter. Some of those searches produce search ads, and Mozilla has been funded primarily from a portion of that revenue that Google shares. In 2012, the most recent year for which figures are available, that search revenue brought in the lion's share of Mozilla's $311 million in revenue.
Comment Why iPad? (Score 2) 393
Why iPad? Reading textbooks and answering questions doesn't seem like it requires a premium tablet. Why not a much cheaper Android one?
