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4chan Declares War On Snow 201

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 13, 2010 @03:16PM from the common-enemy dept.

With all the recent hacktivism in the news, Anonymous has decided to take on a new and powerful enemy: snow. On Sunday the group announced that it will "do everything in its power to shut snow down by attacking the Weather Channel and North Face websites, boycotting outerwear, and voting for the sun as Time’s 2010 Person Of The Year." I'm sure there are a lot of people in Minneapolis right now that would wish them luck.

KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing 187

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 29, 2010 @05:40PM from the that's-software-compilation-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."

Comment Re:So if I understand this correctly... (Score 1) 563

by furanku on Thursday May 13, 2010 @04:39PM (#32199586) Attached to: German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi

No, now it all gets mixed up. The 100 Euro are the maximum charge for the warning letter. We have a new law in Germany that limits these charges to 100 Euro in minor cases. He has not been convicted to pay any compensation, because he was just the one who's WLAN was used ("Störer" in German law), not the one who commited the copyright infringement. And the decision clearly states that "Störer" do not have to pay any compensation.

Comment Is that a new idea? (Score 1) 109

by furanku on Monday February 02, 2009 @05:28PM (#26699937) Attached to: "Magnetic Tornadoes" Could Offer New Data Storage Tech

I don't think that just calling the well known spin-vortices lurid "magnetic tornados" make this a new idea. Gimme one penny for every magnetic or two level or ... system that physicist (I am one of them ...) proposed to be a candidate for groundbreaking new storage systems and I'd be a rich man. At least to my knowledge these spin-vortices are hard to control and often appear as an unwanted effect in domain wall based storage devices in developmen, like IBMs race track RAM. We'll see if we hear more of that idea, but the silly name "magnetic tornados" makes me skeptical that this is just getting public attention for getting research grants.

Comment K naming scheme and /. (Score 1) 433

by furanku on Tuesday June 13, 2006 @04:39AM (#15522501) Attached to: Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last

Although that's offtopic: The KDE developers changed their naming scheme for KDE 4. The "K" is now considered mostly silly, new concepts and programs feature the "K" just very little: Solid, Plasma, Phonon, Oxygen, ... also the silly capitalizations are gone: amaroK is renamed officially to Amarok. See http://commit-digest.org/issues/2006-06-11/ So, sorry, but all the silly joKes about KDE on slashdot need a new issue.

42 IS The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta 316

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 27, 2006 @11:04AM from the douglas-adams-was-right dept.

Venusian Treen writes "In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. The gist is that energy levels in the nucleus of heavy atoms can tell us about the distribution of zeros in Riemann's zeta function - and hence where to find prime numbers. This article discusses this connection, and introduces two physisicts who tell us 'why the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function should be 42.'"

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