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Comment First slashdotting? (Score 1) 35

by everyplace on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:43AM (#57333998) Attached to: Twitter Is Reviving the Chronological Timeline

Pretty excited that http://realtwitter.com/ gets the shout-out in this post (see this tweet for background information). Also excited that Twitter decided to implement this functionality for real.

Comment Post-mortem API (Score 1) 208

by everyplace on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:00PM (#47275519) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Bequeath Sensitive Information?

I registered deathapi.com a while ago, after an acquaintance passed away, for this reason specifically. At the time, I had imagined a system that you OAuth against w/ all of your relevant accounts w/ full admin access, and specify a recipient of those keys after some pre-determined length of inactivity (a year, say). The idea still has a lot of relevancy in my mind, but it's so morbid to think about.

Comment Move to NYC or SF (Score 1) 523

by everyplace on Monday November 28, 2011 @10:29AM (#38190198) Attached to: How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired?

I was in the same boat as you, having had a decade of experience making web sites and programming for NSCA Mosaic, but with no schooling to speak of that was relevant, no-one in my home-town would take a second look at my resume. I moved to NYC (but know that SF is similar, regarding qualification judgements), and found that everyone I talk to in the tech industry cares about what you're capable of, not what's on your resume. Now I'm a director at a fortune 500, and teach at one of the most prestigious design schools in the country. I still don't have a degree.

Comment Re:As a Mac admin, I agree. (Score 1) 341

by everyplace on Monday July 25, 2011 @01:37PM (#36873112) Attached to: Why IT Won't Like Mac OS X Lion Server

Fantastic find. Makes a lot of sense, and basically means the app that ships with 10.7 server is an upgrade for the "basic" server administration app if you use the simple 10.6 configuration, but that all of the underlying services we know and love continue to exist, and just need a different app to admin them. This is no different than how it worked with 10.6, except now the apps don't come with the OS.

Comment "just google it" (Score 2, Funny) 490

by everyplace on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @04:13PM (#33512850) Attached to: Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay

Obviously they would Bing it

Submission + - Open-Source Javascript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG) (paulirish.com) 1

Submitted by gbutler69 on Monday January 18, 2010 @09:41PM

gbutler69 writes: Wow! Someone has gone and done it. Created a Flash Player written in Javascript targetting SVG/HTML5 capable browsers. It's not a complete implementation yet, but, it shows some real promise. Of course, there is the ever-famous vector "Hello World!" called Tiger. This really has promise. How long before HTML5/SVG next-generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers completely supplant Flash and Silverlight/Moonlight?

Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar 606

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 04, 2008 @11:47AM from the put-on-your-foil-hats dept.

rgraham writes "From the article on Growler: 'Apple apparently believes that somebody else is behind Psystar, which might help to explain why a major law firm would take on what seems like a fly-by-night's case; also why Psystar has been so bold in continuing to sell its products. I knew this thing felt funny. As Alice in Wonderland might put it, "It gets interestinger and interestinger."'"

Comment That was ridiculously quick (Score 5, Insightful) 252

by everyplace on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @12:03PM (#23472172) Attached to: Breaking the Fermilab Code

One always conceptually understands the power of numbers, but in this case it is amazing, considering that this problem went unsolved for an extended period within fermilab. The second it is asked to the correct audience though, the gears start going and the answer exists!

Killer Military Robot Arms Race Underway? 332

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @05:21PM from the skynet-unavailable-for-comment dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us NetworkWorld is reporting that one researcher seems to think that a military robot arms race may be imminent between both governments and terrorists. "We are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms race and it may not be long before robots become a standard terrorist weapon to replace the suicide bomber, according to professor Noel Sharkey, from the Royal United Services Institute Department of Computer Science. [...] Currently there is always a human in the loop to decide on the use of lethal force. However, this is set to change with the US giving priority to autonomous weapons - robots that will decide on where, when and who to kill, according to the professor."

Six-Dimensional Space-Time Theory 330

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:15AM from the let's-do-the-twistor dept.

eldavojohn writes "PhysOrg is covering an interesting year-old paper that proposes an alternative six-dimensional theory of space and time. George Sparling's proposition, based on Einstein's general relativity and Elie Cartan's triality, is a twistor space (which I've only read of in Roger Penrose's latest work). The gist is that space-time is modeled not by four dimensions but by six, and that the extra two dimensions are time-like. Sparling is hoping that tests from the Large Hadron Collider will help prove his theory. The paper is heavy but the PhysOrg article summarizes it nicely."

Bookmark Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like (physorg.com)

by everyplace on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @03:00PM

Old Islamic Tile Patterns Show Modern Math Insight 538

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 23, 2007 @04:12AM from the high-tech-tetris dept.

arbitraryaardvark writes "Reuters reports that medieval Muslims made a mega math marvel. Tile patterns on middle eastern mosques display a kind of quasicrystalline effect that was unknown in the west until rediscovered by Penrose in the 1970s. 'Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.' It isn't known if the mosque designers understood the math behind the patterns or not."

Space Plane to Offer 2 Hour Flight around the World 214

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @09:09PM from the forget-80-days dept.

secretsather writes "Two hour flights to the other side of the world may seem like a scene from a science fiction movie; but the technology is in place, and a plane that can do just that is currently in development. While it looks like a scene from a flight simulator, the Astrox space plane is the real deal, and the Astrox Corporation says it could revolutionize the transportation industry. Traveling as fast as Mach 25 with at least 30 minutes of space shuttle-like views while in orbit is the highlight of this plane, and The Astrox Corporation, along with their partners, are claiming to have finally overcome their largest problem, mixing fuel."

Two-Player Games for Mixed Skill Level Players? 506

Posted by Cliff on Thursday March 16, 2006 @07:55PM from the an-semi-level-playing-field dept.

koreth asks: "What are some good two-player games that a newbie can successfully play with a more seasoned gamer? I want to find a good console or PC game I can play with my girlfriend, who has only recently started gaming. Something cooperative would be great, but head-to-head is fine too. All the games we've tried are made for players of roughly the same skill level -- so either I end up dumbing my gameplay way down (no fun for me) or blowing her out of the water without much effort (no fun for her). Is there any game out there that gives two players tasks of varying difficulty to keep both of them engrossed, at the same time?"

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