Comment Thanks man. (Score 1) 1521
Slashdot was a great idea and still my favorite site. Enjoy the break.
Submission + - First ever Pulitzer for non-print series (propublica.org)
decora writes: "Last year ProPublica won the first Pulitzer for an online news site. This year, they have been awarded the first Pulitzer for a series that did not appear in print. The series was Eisinger and Bernstein's "The Wall Street Money Machine" which described how hedge funds & financiers profited from the collapse of the economy. ProPublica publishes under a Creative Commons license and hosts a Nerd Blog where they write about journalism-related hacking and publish open source tools they have developed."
Comment Re:I recommend ... (Score 1) 687
The media doesn't state what authorities nor why they should seek counseling. Bad reporting. Again.
The U.S. seemed to have become so fearful and litigious as to be paralysed sometimes.
Comment Re:No coprocessor... (Score 1) 376
I figured that out immediately. Which was why I thought it was funny. My Doom install consisted of a stack of black floppies labeled D1, D2 ..
Comment Re:No coprocessor... (Score 1) 376
The 80387 was the first chip I installed and it was in a 386SX. I wasn't trying to change the world with an open kernel or even learn to program. It was Doom. I had to get Doom running. Oh no! Hammer pants and wine coolers! The Cure! I think I better go lay down now.
Comment Re:Sad reality (Score 1) 393
Not my best work. I desire other, more worthy, convocations: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asshat plural.
Best Practice For Retiring RSS Feeds? 71
GBJ writes "I work for an organisation that runs seasonal online competition events. Each event has its own news feed which becomes obsolete shortly after the event finishes. We're still getting RSS requests for some events as far back as 2004. I'd like to close a few thousand old feeds and remove the resource hit they cause, but I'm not sure what is the best approach. Currently I'm considering just returning a 404, but I have no idea if there is a better way to handle this. Uncle Google hasn't turned anything up yet, but sometimes it's hard to find something when you don't know what it's called ..."
