Comment SMS Content? (Score 3, Funny) 108
Anyone know what to put in the message? Just for research purposes....
Comment Re:Huh... (Score 1) 450
Likewise, i do consider it to be a great moral story to show that you do not necessarily need to fix everything, or have a solution for everything - but that every little bit of effort matters, and you can make a difference regardless how small it might seem on the greater scheme of things...
Comment Re:Huh... (Score 5, Informative) 450
This is the original story...
An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish, beached and dying after a storm. A young man was picking them up
and flinging them back into the ocean. "Why do you bother?" the old man scoffed. "You're not saving enough to make a difference." The
young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water. "Made a difference to that one," he said.
Comment Re:Expensive Price (Score 0, Troll) 437
You really shouldn't be talking on the phone and driving, and no your not the type with a hands free kit...
Comment Re:Facebook Censoring Torrent Link (Score 1) 676
Facebook has been blocking the pirate bay for a long long time now...
Comment Re:Law enforcement isn't a US sports game (Score 1) 134
You don't go to jail...
"After a three-hour meeting in London, the Featured Artists Coalition, which emerged as a breakaway lobby group in the summer, backed the government's proposed introduction of "technical measures" to combat the rising tide of copyright theft. If they ignore two warning letters, persistent illegal filesharers should have their broadband connections throttled "to a level which would render filesharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access", according to a statement after the meeting."
Source The guardian
Comment Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score 5, Insightful) 625
If you read the article you'd realize the writer was speaking "metaphorically"
it's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.
Bookmark O2 says 128Kb/s is all its 3G customers need (theregister.co.uk)
Submission + - NYU Profs. Slam Java As "damaging" To Stud (af.mil) 1
jfmiller writes: Two professors emeritus of computer science at New York University have penned an article titled Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? in which they berate their university and other for not teaching solid languages like C, C++, Lisp and ADA. From the article,
and further:The resulting set of skills is insufficient for today's software industry (in particular for safety and security purposes) and, unfortunately, matches well what the outsourcing industry can offer. We are training easily replaceable professionals.
They go on to compare Java programming to "a plumber in a hardware store." Would any CS students or professors like to respond?Java programming courses did not prepare our students for the first course in systems, much less for more advanced ones. Students found it hard to write programs that did not have a graphic interface, had no feeling for the relationship between the source program and what the hardware would actually do, and (most damaging) did not understand the semantics of pointers at all, which made the use of C in systems programming very challenging.
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