Comment Re:Jfc, don't look at the sun (Score 1) 90
Strong disagree.
I was fortunate enough to view the 2017 total solar eclipse, and it was in the top 5 events of my life.
Comment Re:An old piece of shit, upgraded to a ... (Score 1) 101
This was a fantastic read. 12 years old, and still relevent today.
Comment Re:So... what they are saying is... (Score 1) 75
Nah. That just means he's (almost certainly a male) in his late teenage years or possibly early 20's. It doesn't have much to do with intellectual skills, only social ones. And typical slashdot posters have always been deficient in that. (Look up the "hot grits" threads, e.g.)
Hot grits. Holy cow, what a callback to The Good Old Days(tm).
Comment Re:Has anyone tried using (Score 1) 156
a VPN that shows its location as being in one of the target cities?
I was curious about the same, so I tried it just now -- worked fine after I made myself appear to be coming from New York. Appears they are doing your run-of-the-mill geolocation based upon IP address.
Comment Re:And further (Score 1) 81
To further put this into context, if your body takes in 2 calories more per day than is needed, you will be obese in a year.
That doesn't sound right to me. An extra 2 calories per day for one year is 730 calories. Even eating an extra 1000 calories in a year isn't going to qualify someone as obese unless they are practically right at that line anyway.
My understanding is that one pound is roughly 3500 calories. So a 730 calorie overage, over the course of a year, would theoretically only represent ~0.2lb.
-jd
Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court 118
walterbyrd writes: In June, when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a software patent, many in the tech industry hoped it would be the beginning of sweeping changes to how the patent system handles software. Just a few months later, lower courts are making it happen. Quoting Vox: "By my count there have been 10 court rulings on the patentability of software since the Supreme Court's decision — including six that were decided this month. Every single one of them has led to the patent being invalidated. This doesn't necessarily mean that all software patents are in danger — these are mostly patents that are particularly vulnerable to challenge under the new Alice precedent. But it does mean that the pendulum of patent law is now clearly swinging in an anti-patent direction. Every time a patent gets invalidated, it strengthens the bargaining position of every defendant facing a lawsuit from a patent troll."
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports on alleged corruption in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
GOG.com Not Really Gone 276
gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."
The 1-Second Linux Boot 156
An anonymous reader writes "Less than one second Linux boot! This video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset."
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