Shishio - Slashdot User

Comment Nitpicking each other to bad press (Score 1) 571

by Shishio on Thursday July 22, 2010 @06:21PM (#32997050) Attached to: WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd

So anything that even calls WordPress APIs gets the GPL touch of death... I understand going after Thesis for copying chunks of GPL code, but all that the WordPress community will get out of this is some bad press for themselves and F/OSS in general.

Comment Possible CAN SPAM implications (Score 4, Interesting) 667

by Shishio on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:56PM (#29762269) Attached to: Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking

So either she didn't see the opt-out links or address of the company, or the email didn't have these. Unless they got really creative with the opt-in, this sounds like a violation of the CAN SPAM act. A $10M lawsuit from one woman is the least of their worries.

Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase 175

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, 2009 @12:15PM from the taking-out-the-trash dept.

Vigile writes "Performance analysis on solid state drives is still coming into clarity as more manufacturers enter the fold and more of the drives find their way into users' hands. While Intel's dominance in the SSD market was once undoubted, newer garbage collection methods from Indilinx and Samsung are now balancing performance across the the major players. What hasn't been discussed in great detail yet is the effect that drive capacity can have on overall performance. Some smaller drives (64GB versus 128GB) will actually use fewer data channels from the controller chip and thus will have lower transfer speeds. The article compares drives using controllers from Indilinx, Samsung and Intel." Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages. Next time maybe they can keep it down to something more reasonable.

Submission + - Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession 4

Submitted by Professor_Quail on Friday August 21, 2009 @08:10AM

Professor_Quail writes: Mexico enacted a controversial law Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging free government treatment for drug dependency. The law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution when the law goes into effect Friday.

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