Comment Best Battlecry... (Score 0) 149
Mozilla to Microsoft:
"It's clobberin time!"
Microsoft to Mozilla:
"Come get some!"
"It's clobberin time!"
Microsoft to Mozilla:
"Come get some!"
Feed Breaking the Speed Record: 81 MPH on a Bike (wired.com)
Long winters make cyclists do crazy things. Sometime in early January, I decided to take a shot at a world record riding a streamlined human powered vehicle -- a reclining bicycle with a carbon fiber shell. I'll be aiming for the flying 200m World Record, which is currently held by Canadian rider Sa
Submission + - KDE 4.0 the holy grail of Desktops ?
An anonymous reader writes: With KDE 4.0 being expected some time this year, expectation runs high in the linux/unix users camp and the media read a lot between the lines of what the KDE developers say and do. In some ways KDE will provide a standard as to how a desktop should look and behave. This interesting article wonders whether KDE 4.0 will become the complete desktop which will meet the needs of a wide cross section of computer users. One of the common complaints that some Linux users have over KDE is that it is too cluttered. And by addressing this need without putting off the power users, the KDE developers could make it an all in one Desktop. Keep in mind that KDE 4.0 is based on Qt 4.0 and so can be easily ported to Windows and other OSes too which makes this thought doubly relevant.
Journal Journal: Lighthouse launch
Long anticipated by some, a fresh Ruby take on Trac has been released to the public tonight. Lighthouse is the first commercial, closed-source app from ActiveReload, the young company formed by Justin Palmer, who collaborates on Prototype, and Rick Olson, who has met admiration in the Rails community for his open source blog and forum, Mephisto and Beast, his work on the Rails co
Feed April Fool's Pranks For Nerds (wired.com)
Submission + - New Superbug to Replace Failing Antibiotics
Anonymous Coward writes: "Researchers in British Columbia have identified a peptide that can fight infection by boosting the immune system. Because antibiotics are under threat due to an explosion of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, this may be just in time."
Bookmark Web work means sex, gambling, IM and adverts (daniweb.com)
Submission + - Assuming Technology Is At Fault
An anonymous reader writes: Working for a marketing services company my department's roll is to develop and maintain reporting systems for all the data we collect. When a department manager sees a dip (or rise) in one of there KPI's the first thing they do is ask me to "check out the reporting", because "[they] think there is a problem"? It's this just the culture of my company or have other slashdoters experienced a blame technology first, ask questions later mentality?
Submission + - High schooler is awarded $100,000 for research
wired_LAIN writes: A teenager from Oklahoma was awarded $100,000 in the Intel Science Talent Search competition for building an inexpensive and accurate spectrograph that can identify the specific characteristics of different kinds of molecules. While normal spectrographs can cost between $20,000 and 100,000 to build, her spectrograph cost less than $500 dollars. The 40 finalists' projects were judged by a panel of 12 scientists, all well established in their respective fields. Among the judges were Vera Rubin , who proved Dark Matter, and Andrew Yeager, one of the pioneers of stem cell research. My only question is: why aren't these kids given more media coverage?
Journal Journal: Slashdot moderation is a weird beast. 3
I"m not trying to say my karma sucks (ok it does, I have none at all thanks to some assholes that consider me overrated), but it's too easy to lose karma than to gain it.
Submission + - Scientists show thought-controlled computer
Da Massive writes: Forget speech-recognition software: How about typing a letter just by thinking it? An Austrian company is showing a brain-computer interface at Cebit that 'reads' thoughts to operate a computer.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;36148 5560;fp;16;fpid;1
Submission + - Modern Technology Reveals Mummy's Past
mamamia writes: The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died — and at such a young age — remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
