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Comment Re:Meh... (Score 1) 404

by d0hboy (#39127895) Attached to: Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only

Oracle hasn't replaced that site yet -- the primary site is still Flash and you've now reminded me why this will be a big headache.

Seconded. Oracle's central support portal still holds on to that flash-based dashboard. By my estimation, they were appeared to have this in development at a time when flash had the highest penetration, but by the time they finally released it (2009), the world had moved on to AJAX-based interfaces. If they had just held on a bit longer in their dev-cycle, they may have caught that wave and avoided flash altogether.

Notably, a good percentage of the Oracle Support population are linux-oriented, so maybe this is a good opportunity for Oracle (and other *nix-centric organizations) to speed up the development of their next-gen web portal.

Comment Re:BattleTech (Score 3, Interesting) 122

by d0hboy (#38400954) Attached to: The Future of Battle Tech

Anyone else read the title and get excited that it was about the future of "BattleTech" the FASA war/board game?

I also did a double-take. On a site featuring News for Nerds, the editors had to have guessed that the title as-it-stood would have caused a bit of confusion. The closest thing I found to the future of BattleTech(tm) in a quick spot-check of the news was the development of the Mechwarrior Online Free to Play MMO'ish game.

Submission + - Full bladder improves decision making (sciencedaily.com)

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anymouse writes: "What should you do when you really, REALLY have to "go"? Make important life decisions, maybe. Controlling your bladder makes you better at controlling yourself when making decisions about your future, too, according to a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science."

Comment MyGloves (Score 1) 140

by d0hboy (#34117752) Attached to: Agloves Allow For Touchscreen Use On Cold Days
Interesting stuff. From the article's image, the AGloves seem pretty utilitarian. There's also a company MyGloves* that produces gloves with similar functionality .. the difference is that they have conductivity elements on only the main digits of your hand (index, thumb) and they're stylized with different prints / marks / fabric, it seems. Just tossing that out for the masses to chew on..
Idle

Halo Elite Cosplay Puts Others To Shame 115

Posted by samzenpus from the using-your-time-wisely dept.
AndrewGOO9 writes "Pete Mander, a special effects artist from Ontario, Canada seems like he might have either had way too much time on his hands or just really enjoys Halo. Either way, this is one of those costumes that makes all of the cosplayers at a con feel like their best efforts just weren't quite up to par."
NASA

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.
longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."
Government

The Woman Who Established Fair Use 226

Posted by kdawson from the one-of-a-kind dept.
The Narrative Fallacy writes "The Washington Post has an interesting profile on Barbara A. Ringer, who joined the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress in 1949 and spent 21 years drafting the legislation and lobbying Congress before the Copyright Act of 1976 was finally passed. Ringer wrote most of the bill herself. 'Barbara had personal and political skills that could meld together the contentious factions that threatened to tear apart every compromise in the 20 year road to passage of the 1976 Act,' wrote copyright lawyer William Patry. The act codified the fair use defense to copyright infringement. For the first time, scholars and reviewers could quote briefly from copyrighted works without having to pay fees. With the 1976 act that Ringer conceived, an author owned the copyright for his or her lifetime plus 50 years. Previously under the old 1909 law, an author owned the copyright for 28 years from the date of publication and unless the copyright was renewed, the work entered the public domain, and the author lost any right to royalties. Ringer received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest honor for a federal worker. Ringer remained active in copyright law for years, attending international conferences and filing briefs with the Supreme Court before her death earlier this year at age 83. 'Her contributions were monumental,' said Marybeth Peters, the Library of Congress's current register of copyrights. 'She blazed trails. She was a heroine.'"

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