ckostovny - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It's not dead, it just smells funny. (Score 1) 208

by ckostovny on Monday February 27, 2012 @12:30PM (#39173497) Attached to: Is Hypertext Literature Dead?

I had a college lit class where we were assigned "Patchwork Girl." I don't recall much of the story, but I do recall being particularly annoyed that I had to use the proprietary reader software included on the CD instead of the decidedly more modern web browser already on the PC. "Stumbling through" is an accurate description of my experience.

Comment Re:Innovation (Score 1) 111

by ckostovny on Friday January 13, 2012 @01:24PM (#38688196) Attached to: $10M Tricorder X PRIZE Kicks off

(7) Lots and lots of programming. Ideally the tricorder should talk to the person, and listen to their answers, including such things as, "what seems to be the problem?" to get symptoms that it can look up.

Wouldn't "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" be more apropos?

Submission + - Australia bans small breasts (somebodythinkofthechildren.com) 6

Submitted by mariushm on Thursday January 28, 2010 @12:19PM

mariushm writes: The Australian Sex Party (ASP) said Wednesday that the Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. It comes just a week after it was found that material with depictions of females ejaculating during orgasm are now Refused Classification and Australian Customs directed to confiscate it.

The National Classification Code dictates that anything that describes or depicts a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not) in a way that is likely to cause offense to a reasonable adult is Refused Classification.

Submission + - FCC's Net Neutrality Plan blocks BitTorrent (eff.org)

Submitted by master_p on Thursday January 28, 2010 @08:37AM

master_p writes: The FCC's formally issued draft net neutrality regulations have a huge copyright loophole in them; a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was "reasonable network management" intended to "prevent the unlawful transfer of content." The new proposed net neutrality regulations would allow the same practices that net neutrality was first invoked to prevent, even if these ISP practices end up inflicting collateral damage on perfectly lawful content and activities.

Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:56AM from the be-careful-they-cheat dept.

Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.

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