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Comment Sounds like... (Score 1) 146

by stedo on Monday May 17, 2010 @10:21AM (#32237658) Attached to: Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding?

Diaspora sounds like a cuil idea!

Comment Re:Problem (Score 1) 639

by stedo on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @02:28PM (#29507767) Attached to: According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated"

Recently, I went to my boss and told him, "Screw this, I'm going to spend the next month refactoring our messy code, rather than adding new functionality". Messy code got deleted, known bugs were fixed, previously unknown bugs were found and fixed, and performance improved significantly. I fucking love working in a startup.

Comment Re:just add water (Score 1) 509

by stedo on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @05:47PM (#24023289) Attached to: Roundest Object In the World Created

So what's a newton? Last I heard, it was the force that could effect an acceleration of 1m/s/s on a 1 kilogram body.

Submission + - Six Degrees of Wikipedia (netsoc.tcd.ie)

Submitted by on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @02:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ever heard of the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? If you haven't, it works like this: Every actor gets a Kevin Bacon number. Kevin Bacon has a Kevin Bacon number of 0, actors who were in a movie with Kevin Bacon get a Kevin Bacon number of 1, actors who were in a movie with someone who has a Kevin Bacon number 1 get a 2, and so on (Everybody always gets the smallest number possible, so if you were in a film with two people, one with a 4 and one with a 6, your Kevin Bacon number would be 5). The same idea could apply to the articles Wikipedia. Instead of taking "in the same film" as the relation, you can take "is linked to by". We'll call the "Kevin Bacon number" from one article to another the "distance" between them. It's then possible to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness).

Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling 252

Posted by timothy on Monday September 25, 2006 @02:41PM from the press-here-to-accept-fee-and-continue dept.

bagsc writes "Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com strikes fear into another ATM manufacturer. This time, Triton ATMs had their super-secret master codes revealed by simple Google searches. Tranax was the most recent company with this problem, but probably not the last."

DRM Hole Sets Patch Speed Record For Microsoft 397

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 07, 2006 @02:18PM from the great-priorities dept.

puppetman writes "Wired columnist Bruce Schneier has an article up called 'Quickest Patch Ever', about a patch that was issued within three days to fix a vulnerability in Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM)." From the article: "Now, this isn't a 'vulnerability' in the normal sense of the word: digital rights management is not a feature that users want. Being able to remove copy protection is a good thing for some users, and completely irrelevant for everyone else. No user is ever going to say: 'Oh no. I can now play the music I bought for my PC on my Mac. I must install a patch so I can't do that anymore.' But to Microsoft, this vulnerability is a big deal. It affects the company's relationship with major record labels. It affects the company's product offerings. It affects the company's bottom line. Fixing this 'vulnerability' is in the company's best interest; never mind the customer."

Got Root - Should You Use It? 245

Posted by Cliff on Saturday April 15, 2006 @08:25PM from the great-power-great-responsibility dept.

vegthura asks: "I have several coworkers that insist that logging into servers is an acceptable practice. They claim it's just easier than using sudo and it's just as safe - you know you're root so what else do you need? And why bother logging in as you if you're just going to use sudo to run commands with root privileges anyway? Everything I've ever read has been the exact opposite philosophy. There is very little you need to be root to do, if anything in practice, and using sudo lets you only use the power of root for when you really need it. So, die hard unix geeks, you've got root... do you use it or stick to sudo?"

Automated Linux Error Checking 25

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 06, 2006 @11:09AM from the see-what-they-produce dept.

Caydel writes "In a recent message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity, Inc. announced an internal framework to continually scan open source projects for source defects and provide the results of their analysis back to the developers of those projects. The linux kernel is one of 32 open source projects monitored by Coverity. Coverity is looking for a few group-nominated maintainers to access the reports, in order to patch the bugs found before they are announced to the general public. For those not familiar with Coverity, they are a small company out of Stanford who monitor source code correctness through automatic static source code analysis."

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