Comment Wow! (Score 3, Funny) 74
Holy shit! Kirk Douglas is still alive?!
Comment Re:collision crisis (Score 5, Funny) 622
Apparently, the UK submarine was carrying red paint, and the French sub was carrying blue paint.
All the sailors are marooned.
Comment We just lost... (Score 1) 73
Before you say how silly this PR is, consider that it's made it to frontpage of slashdot (yeah, yeah, idle I know, but it still counts)...
Comment Really? (Score 1) 325
A virus that can propagate through an entire enterprise's array of servers, and then wipe out all data?
Most enterprises comprise a heterogeneous mix of servers of differing breeds. Getting a program to run on all of them, and then to gain access to data and transform it all in a single virus would be a great piece of programming, and any enterprise looking to hire an efficient data migration specialist or integration architect should consider hiring...
Comment By the natural time rhythms of life (Score 1) 534
By the arc of the sun, by the phases of the moon, by the passing of the seasons.
And by the growth of my memories, and by the height of my children and by the colour of my hair.
Comment Re:In that case.... (Score 5, Funny) 258
Beowulf imagined a cluster of one of these!
Comment Re:Its a PR Stunt, not about trademark (Score 5, Funny) 213
They're not commas but apostrophes that fell of the "it's" and wandered upstream like salmon.
Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? 604
hi_caramba_2008 writes "We are a bunch of good friends at a large software company. The product we work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and management keeps pulling in different direction. Discussing this among ourselves, we talked about leaving the company and rebuilding the code from scratch over a few months. We are not taking any code with us. We are not taking customer lists (we probably will aim at different customers anyway). The code architecture will also be different — hosted vs. stand-alone, different modules and APIs. But at the feature level, we will imitate this product. Can we be sued for IP infringement, theft, or whatever? Are workers allowed to imitate the product they were working on? We know we have to deal with the non-compete clause in our employment contracts, but in our state this clause has been very difficult to enforce. We are more concerned with other IP legal aspects."
Feed New York Times: Oracle to Buy BEA for $8.5 Billion (nytimes.com)
Business software maker BEA Systems has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp for $8.5 billion, ending a long negotiation over the value of the company.
Feed The Register: LucasArts to wield Wii Light Sabre in UK next week (theregister.com)
Gaming festival to feature peripheral
British fans of Nintendo Wii and Star Wars will get a first glimpse of the console’s upcoming Light Sabre peripheral at a gaming festival being held later this month.
Comment IBM!? (Score 1) 235
Anyone else find it funny that IBM is supporting this project? Given the history of Compaq reverse-engineering *their* BIOS to jumpstart the PC industry?
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