I decided to leave this site for numerous reasons, most include its degradation... I am not even sure today's stories reach Jon Katz's which already were lame.
The fact is that everybody now consider Slashdot as an acquired entertainment site... A "Reference" even though we should rather look at its evolution...

I was just wondering how many of the Slashdotters were actually Believers, how many were Agnostics, Atheists... For example, Larry Wall is a Christian while Amnon Barak is Jewish. Well, I just wanted to get an unbiaised idea of your relation to ${DEITY}.

Hi
I just wrote a Flashpplet and I would like to know if it works properly on most browsers:
Please, check the following link and report how it goes and what platform/browser you've been using to view it.
http://linuxette.org/grOOm/

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Technorati which is a blog search search engine is about to link to its billionth link, with currently 8,304,729 weblogs watched. Wordpress got my personal pages automatically indexed by it.

Because they can't stand seeing their code stolen by the CherryOS people who keep obfuscating it, the PearPC people are looking for funds in order to sue CherryOS and enforce the GPL. The story is here.

It took 6 years until Sophia Stewart, author of The Matrix finally got to receive her due from the copyright infringement of her original work. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California. She's about to get the biggest payoff of the whole cinema history: two and a half billions ! Read more about it here.

An extensive study of the X chromosome led scientists to believe that there are more differences between men and women than between humans (both genders) and chimps. Read about it in the Washington Post and in the L.A. Times...

Jon Johansen has published a small programs which allows the acquisition of DRM-free file from Apple's iTunes Music Store. He explains that his program works by bypassing iTunes which adds the DRM itself at the end of the transfer. His program, pymusique, is Windows-only compliant but it'd be easy to port it to

Propellerheads just announced the release of Reason 3.0, their famous all-in-one virtual rack. New features include a mastering suite and a combination device. Impressive.

Yesterday, during the second day of Intel Developer Forum 2005, a Centrino-based PC was introduced. This'd remain unnoticed if it didn't look so much like another already famous computer. Clubic (French site) has some pics so you can judge by yourself (

Aspyr finally announced their port of Doom III for the Mac. Warning : a 2GHz G5 is recommanded !

I have been advised to consult the following bug report which was submitted to the MSDN. A very fundamental bug occurs when you compile Console.WriteLine( ((int)-1) >> 1);. You'd expect a logical right shift to occur and the value -1 (0xFFFFFFFF) to be returned but you receive 2147483647 (0x1FFFFFFF) instead. Note that the bug has since been fixed and shou

It all began with a very unfunny joke and it ended like a complete flame-pocalypse !