nes11 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 293

by nes11 on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:09PM (#34179106) Attached to: Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles?

Mind you, my primary form of contraception is never having sex. My wife hates to try (her idea of foreplay is, "I think I'm drunk enough. Go.") and I had to give up after years of nothing but bad sex followed by 30 minutes of her crying afterwards. I'm no good for entertainment, no good for reproduction. What good am I?

I don't want to post any more. I'm sad.

I wish this didn't make me laugh so hard. Now I feel bad. nah, no i don't.

Comment Casio POS (Score 1) 1

by nes11 on Sunday April 13, 2008 @05:54PM (#23056674) Attached to: Cash registers - can you access you own data?

I work for a POS reseller that resells Casio products for low-end customers. They have a very wide range of mid-level cash registers that do exactly what you want.

Calculating the Date of Easter 336

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 23, 2008 @02:31PM from the computus-giganticus dept.

The God Plays Dice blog has an entertaining post on how the date of Easter is calculated. Wikipedia has all the messy details of course, but the blog makes a good introduction to the topic. "Easter is the date of the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21... [T]he cycle of Easter dates repeat themselves every 5,700,000 years. The cycle of epacts (which encode the date of the full moon) in the Julian calendar repeat every nineteen years. There are two corrections made to the epact, each of which depend[s] only on the century; one repeats (modulo 30, which is what matters) every 120 centuries, the other every 375 centuries, so the [p]air of them repeat every 300,000 years. The days of the week are on a 400-year cycle, which doesn't matter because that's a factor of 300,000. So the Easter cycle has length the least common multiple of 19 and 300,000, which is 5,700,000 [years]."

Microsoft Opens Its Security Research Cookbooks 87

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 27, 2007 @10:31PM from the now-cook-me-up-some-pie dept.

greg65535 writes "Today Microsoft launched a blog about the internals of their IT security research and patch development process. There are already some posts that you will not find in the official security bulletins or KB articles. One of the posts says, 'We periodically identify workarounds or mitigations like this that we can't use for official guidance because they're either too nuanced or have some exception cases. When we discover something potentially useful but are uncomfortable listing it in the bulletin, we'll do our best to describe it here in this blog.' It looks like Microsoft is making an effort to become more 'open' in the area of security research and communication."

Submission + - The Home Library Problem Solved (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by

Zack Grossbart

on Monday December 10, 2007 @10:53PM

Zack Grossbart writes: "About 18 months ago I posted the following question to Ask SlashDot, "How do you organize a home library with 3,500 books?" I have read all the responses, reviewed most of the available software, and come up with a good solution described in the article The Library Problem. This article discusses various cataloging schemes, reviews cheap barcode scanners, and outlines a complete solution for organizing your home library. Now you can see an Ask SlashDot question with a definitive answer."

Submission + - Are you proud of your code? 6

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09, 2007 @07:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: I have a problem and I am hoping /. group therapy is the cure, so get on with the +5 comments, post haste! I am downright embarrassed by the quality of my work; specifically, my code. It is buggy, slow, fragile, and a nightmare to maintain. Documentation, requirements, automated tests? Does not exist. Do you feel the same way? If so, then what is holding you back from realizing your full potential? More importantly, what if anything are you planning to do about it? This picture, which many of you have already seen, captures several project failure modes. It would be humorous if it weren't so depressingly true. I enjoy programming and have from a young age (cut my teeth on BASIC on an Apple IIe). I have worked for companies large and small in a variety of languages and platforms. Sadly the one constant in my career is that I am assigned to projects that drift, seemingly aimlessly, from inception to a point where the client runs out of funding and the project is abandoned. Like many young and idealistic university graduates I hoped to spend my life programming passionately, but ten years later I look in the mirror and see a whore. I'm just doing it for the money. Have any developers here successfully lobbied their company to stop or cut back on 'cowboy coding' and adopt best practices? I'm not talking about the methodology-of-the-week, I'm referring to good old fashioned advice like keeping SQL out of the UI layer. For the big prize: has anyone convinced their superiors that the customer isn't always right and saying no once in awhile is the best course of action? Thanks in advance for your helpful advice.

Journal Journal: Mouseovers - as bad as popups? 8

Journal by fyngyrz on Sunday September 30, 2007 @08:26PM

Is anyone else as annoyed as I am by words and phrases in web articles that pop up boxes because my mouse pointer happened to cross them, temporarily hiding the content I was reading in the first place? I didn't click on anything, and consequently, I don't want a context change. I find these annoying to the point of noting what the site is and not going back. Anyone else feel the same? Anyone have a defense of the practice?

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media 1

Submitted by

Join the Pirate Party

on Friday September 21, 2007 @05:29PM

Join the Pirate Party writes: "Having found the necessary proof via the leaked MediaDefenders documents, the Pirate Bay is filing suit against the big record and movie labels operating in Sweden who have allegedly been paying professional hackers, saboteurs and DDoSers to destroy their trackers. They also claim to have filed a police report."

Submission + - School kids get virtual web lockers (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Monday September 03, 2007 @07:37AM

Lucas123 writes: "These seventh and eighth graders in Tulsa, Oklahoma not only get tablet PCs at the beginning of the school year, but they are now issued 100MB of storage through a hosted school "Web Locker" system, according to Brian Fonseca at Computerworld. The Web lockers also include chat, calendaring, and collaboration capabilities, but school administrators can also monitor and track all files uploaded to the system, and lock out individuals for misuse."

Submission + - Crew ends 100 day long Mars simulation in Arctic (wired.com)

Submitted by

Paul server guy

on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @10:18PM

Paul server guy writes: "According to Wired Science http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/four-mo nth-mars.html and MSNBC "Cosmic Log" http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/20/ 325220.aspx the seven person F-XI LDM crew that has been stationed at the Mars Society's FMARS station has completed their unprecedented 100 day simulation. (it is actually 101 days, because for 37 they lived on "Mars time" adding 39 minutes to each day and losing a day to the rest of us.) According to the mission's remote science principal investigator Chris McKay, of NASA Ames. "Their pioneering simulation of crew operations on Mars time is by far the best work on this topic ever done. It sets the standard for future Mars mission simulations."
Crew Commander Melissa Battler, a Canadian geologist, commented in her blog that one of the biggest challenges of shifting to Martian time was not when to fall asleep (which they had no trouble with) but when to eat! "Several of us were hungry very frequently during our first 10 days of Mars Time, but our bodies seem to be adjusting now." Melissa adds that the extra 39 minutes does make a difference, "[you] feel like [you're] getting more work done."
Several "MarsEd" events took place where the crew would send a video presentation and then hold Q&A sessions with various Children's classes. For a major send off, as part of a MarsEd event the today the crew spoke to the NASA Ames Academy, and on the 22nd, the "Foxi" LDM Crew will be 'meeting' with Astronaut Clay Anderson, who is currently in orbit aboard ISS!
Following the mission, the crew will mothball the FMARS (Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station) hab and travel to the International Mars Society's annual conference in LA Aug 30 — Sept 2. This and more information can be found at http://www.marssociety.org/portal
My Summary? It was a fantastic mission, doing world class ground breaking science in extremely hostile conditions, and every one came through it in high spirits. A complete mission success. You should look at http://www.fmars2007.org/ to see all of the details."

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