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Comment This should be in your paid advertisement section (Score 1) 155

by __aawrdx9657 on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @03:55PM (#50303805) Attached to: The Fastest-Growing Tech State Is... Minnesota

Slashdot, how far you have fallen. On the heels of SourceForge, this story is a perfect example why more of us are seeking elsewhere for our tech news. Have the decency, if you have been paid by Dice for this post, to actually label it as such. A search for this report in the website of the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals nothing that can be spun as in your story:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

PLEASE have some integrity, and source/reference your stories.

Pedro Matias Sets New Texting Record At Mobile World Cup 70

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 15, 2010 @05:15PM from the text-invalid-if-bff-appears-anywhere-in-it dept.

Pedro Matias showed off his mad txtin sklz at this year's Mobile World Cup and managed to set a new record for "fastest, most accurate" texts as determined by the event's corporate owners. "history was made when Portugal's Pedro Matias set the new World's Record for texting by typing a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds (besting the previous record by 23 seconds). Of course, each Mobile World Cup must have its share of controversy -- in this case, Engadget Mobile's very own Chris Ziegler led a silent protest during the awards ceremony. The group was reportedly upset over the use of QWERTY phones (the LG enV3 in this case) to break the record."

Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Releases Beta 2 113

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:50AM from the now-with-bloodier-frontiers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The open source FPS Blood Frontier has now made their beta2 release. From the article: 'After many months of development, and massive amounts of input from the public, we are proud to present you with the new release of Blood Frontier, v0.85 (Beta 2). This new version totally redefines and improves the game in many ways, creating a whole new style that makes it almost nothing like its predecessor.'"

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 13, 2009 @09:27AM from the talking-to-you-cliff dept.

theodp writes "Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students. You'll find identical pitches made by the University of Delaware, the University of Cincinnati, Kansas State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and other public colleges and universities. The same message is also echoed by private schools, such as John Hopkins University, Brown University, Rollins College and Loyola University Chicago."

Comment Metastable (Score 1) 277

by __aawrdx9657 on Saturday August 08, 2009 @06:44PM (#28999011) Attached to: Linux-Friendly, Internet-Enabled HDTVs?

Recently got a Sharp Aquos, which comes with an Ethernet port, and a bunch of widgets that does "stuff" (including getting weather etc.). I'm sure it would be trivial to create a widget for browsing and playing movie files from my home network - but either because Sharp does not use Linux, and/or they don't release the API - that is never likely to happen. The TV is good, but I should have asked questions like mrchaotica here.

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