Comment i've seen this before... (Score 1) 363
Soylent Green is People!
Comment Coincidence! (Score 1) 37
I was playing Age of Empires at lunch today, but, no I wasn't streaming
200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant 693
Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."
Submission + - Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms: Report (crn.com) 1
cgriffin21 writes: No stranger to privacy concerns, Facebook is one again in in the privacy spotlight following a Wall Street Journal report that some popular Facebook applications leak personal information to advertisers. "Many of the popular applications, or 'apps,' on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies," according to The Wall Street Journal, which wrote about Facebook Sunday in the latest installment of its recent "What They Know" series about advertising and the Internet.
Submission + - Desktop Linux is Dead (pcworld.com)
digitaldc writes: According to PCWorld, desktop Linux is dead...
It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead.Despite phenomenal security and stability--and amazing strides in usability, performance, and compatibility--Linux simply isn’t catching on with desktop users. And if there ever was a chance for desktop Linux to succeed, that ship has long since sunk...Ultimately, Linux is doomed on the desktop because of a critical lack of content. And that lack of content owes its existence to two key factors: the fragmentation of the Linux platform, and the fierce ideology of the open-source community at large.
It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead.Despite phenomenal security and stability--and amazing strides in usability, performance, and compatibility--Linux simply isn’t catching on with desktop users. And if there ever was a chance for desktop Linux to succeed, that ship has long since sunk...Ultimately, Linux is doomed on the desktop because of a critical lack of content. And that lack of content owes its existence to two key factors: the fragmentation of the Linux platform, and the fierce ideology of the open-source community at large.
Submission + - Oracle's Java Company change breaks Eclips (sun.com)
crabel writes: In Java 1.6.0_21 the company field was changed from "Sun Microsystems, Inc" to "Oracle".
Apparently not the best idea since some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine.
All eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) until and including the recent Helios release (2010) have been reported to crash with an OutOfMemoryError due to this change.
This is particularly funny since the update is deployed through automatic update and suddenly applications cease to work...
Good job!
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514
Apparently not the best idea since some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine.
All eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) until and including the recent Helios release (2010) have been reported to crash with an OutOfMemoryError due to this change.
This is particularly funny since the update is deployed through automatic update and suddenly applications cease to work...
Good job!
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514
Comment Re:subject goes here... (Score 1) 202
all the best vegetables are made of beef
Comment Re:To be fair... (Score 1) 546
well..
+2 for informative, thanks for the lead
Comment Re:Unlucky? (Score 1) 123
Nope, that was just Jamie...
Comment Re:I call BS (Score 1) 163
you made me do something that I try to avoid before commenting, you made me go and read the article. but looking at MIT's site there really is a Yang Shao-Horn. Unless this is just an elaborate ruse.
Comment Re:One question (Score 1) 197
I'm reasonably certain that your sig has a syntax error. What does your IDE say?
Comment Re:Groups Can Lobby for Anything (Score 1) 394
I write my Congress Critter for free hookers and blow, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get it.
But I bet if Congress asked the entertainment industry for hookers and blow they would get them within the hour...
Comment Re:hmm... (Score 1) 490
nah, it wouldn't be the first time, that's why they were found guilty of violating anti-trust laws the first time around.
xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Comment Re:What a doorknob (Score 1) 366
it might seem incomprehensible, but there have been multiple business cycles in this country (and the world). Some of them dipped into depression. One of them happened in the 1920's (the GP example) another one happened in the 1930 (your example).
Just because you are unaware of something, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
