Comment proxy block (Score 1) 21
works from northern europe .
Comment Re:private dumb: $20K. Govt dumb: $400 billion (Score 1) 327
>> so it would have cost them almost nothing to have me do it.
Another way to look at this is the lost opportunity of 19 000 bean$ contract. THAT would had been very efficient for you
Submission + - Monsanto Buys Climate Corp, Wants to Predict Local Weather
cagraham writes: Agriculture giant Monsanto has purchased the weather analytics firm Climate Corporation for over $930 Million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Climate Corp, a firm founded by ex-Google data scientists and software engineers, specializes in hyper-local weather prediction which they use to recommend risk-management and crop-insurance policies for farmers. Monsanto likely wants to use this technology to boost their big data farming systems, and help better market their genetically engineered crop seeds. This news comes the same day that Monsanto posted increased Q4 losses of $0.47 per share.
Comment Re:you realize you are asking on an ad supported s (Score 1) 248
Yep : "Slashdot users" versus "Slashdot consumers"
Comment why Safari/OS X generates files Downloads-1-1? (Score 1) 63
Was this web page written by evil crackers ? Why is my beloved Mac writing files called /Users/Downloads-1-1, Downloads-1-2 ??? This freaks me out, because I've been told there are NO VIRUSES FOR MAC !!!
Seriously, there is a fresh discussion in Apple forums, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2113155&tstart=0&start=0.
This is a (sad thing) pow 2 : Mac vulnerabilities , coming from Slashdot
Comment Re:RAID1 is not fool's gold (Score 3, Informative) 564
Actually RAID1 is quite good for reading data: it minimizes seek time . Of course, it works fine as long as there are not many writes. For example think analytic databases, cubes, etc. Those are not written to in real time (like the more common transactional databases)
Comment only short & only long (Score 1) 2
Wonder if keeping only a short name and a long name won't break backwards compatibility. For example if the volume is mounted on Linux, written to, and plugged into a Windows box .Or another device, implementing another subset of the undocumented FAT
Comment VirtualBox is nice without any 3D acceleration (Score 1) 161
I've been using VirtualBox to run some closed source software on my laptop. With WmWare, it barely worked. with VirtualBox, I was even able to make a cluster between the apps between the two virtual OSes (on same laptop), with decent performance. Setting up the network needed some tinkering, but after that it worked like a charm. Great piece of software ! I couldn't care less for the sound and 3D stuff as long as they don't break the core functionality
Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords 849
Mark writes "Usability expert and columnist Jakob Nielsen wants to abolish password masking: 'Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.' I've never been impressed by the argument that 'I can't think why we need this (standard) security measure, so let's drop it.' It usually indicates a lack of imagination of the speaker. But in this case, does usability outweigh security?"
Comment grapcha - new puzzle (Score 1) 288
If everything else seems to fail, try these convoluted, big captchas generated based on Graphviz graphs. Link : http://snowflakejoins.com/grapcha/index?text=slashdot
Google Chrome Developers On Browser Security 61
CowboyRobot writes "Developers of Google's Chrome browser have spoken up in an article describing their approach to keeping the browser secure, focusing on minimizing the frequency, duration, and severity of exposure. One tool Chrome uses is a recently open-sourced update distribution application called 'Omaha.' 'Omaha automatically checks for software updates every five hours. When a new update is available, a fraction of clients are told about it, based on a probability set by the team. This probability lets the team verify the quality of the release before informing all clients.'"
Comment Re:Google Squared- remember Teoma? (Score 2, Interesting) 171
I remember around year 2000 there was am animated search engine that produced linked "bubbles" , with the diameter representing relevance. I guess it was Teoma (not sure). Anyone else remembers?
Comment ..Controlled by a mainframe ?? (Score 1) 304
TFA states "and mainframe computer which controls the legs". If it happens to be one of those bigger mainframes, there is hardly any space left to sit ( http://www.webmilhouse.com/wordpress/wp-content/HomeComputer.jpg )
Feed Samsung's SGH-i400 goes Symbian S60 (engadget.com)
Filed under: Cellphones
Symbian is back in the news this morning after another night of promiscuity. Having been spotted shacking-up with with LG and Google just yesterday, the Nokia bedfellow was just outed with this cutie, Samsung's new SGH-i400 smartphone. It's not the first Samsung S60 slider we've seen, nor will it be the last. In addition to some pretty bold "symbian OS" branding in the upper-right corner, the i400 brings a regular ol' 2 megapixel camera, dedicated MP3 key, stereo speakers, Bluetooth, MicroSD expansion, and support for full web browsing on it's 2.3-inch "wide display." No word on a 3G radio here so we'll have to assume the worst (tri-band GSM/EDGE). We do know that it'll make its debut in Russia in July and then "other European countries" shortly thereafter. Hey Russia, welcome to Europe!Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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