das_magpie - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Social networks (Score 1) 295

by das_magpie on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @09:44PM (#32188754) Attached to: Creating a Better Facebook

Now, Facebook has tried hard to make that less true with features with tagging of images that build up their own database of historical information that is a bit harder to move over to another site.

But to support your argument it would not be that difficult to write an application to export your entire Facebook account details. If you were smart about it you could even keep the names and facebook ids of each user who has used the migration tool and as people shift across using the tool they would get there old lives back.

Submission + - NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @05:47PM

adeelarshad82 writes: After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and that it had broken off its supply relationship with IPEX, the supplier. Also NewEgg, for its part, said that it already had contacted affected customers, and would continue to reach out and replace the counterfeit parts. As seen in the unboxing of the fake Core i7, the product seems legit at first. It's only after you open it that the buyer realizes that it's fake.

How To Teach Programming To Kids, Via XBox 124

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 11, 2009 @05:37PM from the if-it's-fun-it's-educational dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chris Wilson reviews Kodu, the new XBox game that he calls 'Logo on Steroids.' The game allows you to build a world and program every object in it with an in-house graphical language, making the game a primitive example of 'reactive state machines' in a 'multi-agent concurrent system.' It sounds like what we call 'application specific integrated circuits' in engineering, where every line of code runs in parallel."

Comment Re:Come on already (Score 1) 516

by das_magpie on Friday October 24, 2008 @03:42AM (#25494819) Attached to: Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran'

Governments are generally about the economy and slowing internet access down by %86 and dropping us into the dark ages is probably not a good idea in this day and age.

I think it will be just easier for Rudd to sack Conroy and he will look like a saint for doing so.

I also have no idea why an independent goverment run ISP is not set up and parents are urged to sign up for it and they can have there own content manipulated and monitored by the goverment and leave the rest of us out of it. Kind of obvious its an invasion of privacy otherwise.

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