werwerf - Slashdot User

Comment Much ado about nothing! (Score 1) 128

by werwerf on Thursday November 22, 2012 @01:48PM (#42067121) Attached to: Why Big Data Could Sink Europe's 'Right To Be Forgotten'

Jesus Christ!

It's called a Robinson list!

We use it in Pharma every other day! Just match the inferred info against that list and if the person being referred is in the list, you cannot use the info. Period.

Instead of trying to chase every other bit of information to delete it (ludicrous and utter impossible), use opt-in.

It's not so hard...

Comment Re:-1 Troll (Score 1) 641

by werwerf on Monday March 22, 2010 @07:19PM (#31577144) Attached to: Open Source Is Not a Democracy

"The best argument against democracy is obtained talking five minutes with the average voter" - Winston Churchill ... And he was a democrat!

No project should ever be a democracy, it is plain nonsense...

Discuss about ideas, propose things, whatever... But a clear guidance and leadership takes you to the end...

Submission + - IPv4 unallocated address exhaustion by 2010

Submitted by on Thursday May 24, 2007 @09:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: Ars Technica is reporting on how the unallocated IPv4 address pool could run out as soon as 2010. The IPv4 Address Report gives details on just how fast the available pool of IPv4 addresses is diminishing. Will ISPs be moving towards IPv6 any time soon? Or will IPv4 exhaustion become the next Y2K?

Submission + - Holocaust Dropped From UK Schools

Submitted by

dteichman2

on Thursday May 24, 2007 @03:52AM

dteichman2 writes: "It appears that UK schools are ignoring The Holocaust. A government-backed study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, found that some teachers are reluctant to teach history lessons on The Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. As such, many schools are not covering the subject. Additionally, similar problems are being met with lessons on The Crusades because these lessons contradict teachings from local mosques.

Isn't there a law that requires UK schools to cover these topics? Should there be?"

Is Computer Science Dead? 641

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @04:51AM from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

warm sushi writes "An academic at the British Computing Society asks, Is computer science dead? Citing falling student enrollments and improved technology, British academic Neil McBride claims that off-the-shelf solutions are removing much of the demand for high-level development skills: 'As commercial software products have matured, it no longer makes sense for organizations to develop software from scratch. Accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day: stable, well-proven and easily available.' Is that quote laughable? Or has the software development industry stabilized to an off-the-self commodity?"

Submission + - HDMI Enabled Graphics Cards Debut

Submitted by

TrackinYeti

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @04:08AM

TrackinYeti writes: "HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), is the first industry supported digital-only interface, that requires a single cable to connect an output source to an HD-ready device, such as a television or monitor and deliver HD video, plus multi-channel digital audio, like Dolby Digital and DTS. Recently, Asus Computer released versions of their GeForce 7600 and Radeon X1600 cards with HDMI outputs on them, driven by an on-board Sil1930 controller. These are some of the first graphics cards to hit the market that can output HDMI natively with an integrated HDCP cipher engine and support HD-audio as well. Just the thing for that HTPC?"

Journal Journal: Looking for an old game??? 1

Journal by Scorgie on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @01:54AM

Hey, everyone or anyone I'm trying to track down an old, old computer game. I'm not sure if it was for apple or PC but I think it was PC. It's called Fairy Tales, but it's not like mother goose fairy tales. You started off as one of three brothers, when you died as one brother, you would become the one of the other brothers. T he only difference between brothers was the shirt and hair colors. It was like Ultima because you could do just about anything, steal, kill innocent people, it was the f

Submission + - why exercise boosts brainpower

Submitted by aditi on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:45AM

aditi writes: CNN reports that exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss.
Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans.Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging scans to help document the process in mice — and then used MRIs to look at the brains of people before and after exercise.They found the same patterns, which suggests that people also grow new brain cells when they exercise.

Submission + - MS exec: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft

Submitted by on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: ArsTechnica is running a story regarding Microsoft's view that should software piracy occur, Microsoft's desire is that the pirated software be theirs, to potentially, in the future, convert users from the "dark side" into legit users who obtain licenses...

"At the Morgan Stanley Technology conference last week in San Francisco, Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes commented on the benefits of software counterfeiting. 'If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else,' he said. 'We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software.'"

Obviously Microsoft prefers the market to use their software even if it's pirated rather than the alternative to occur: the use of free software which threatens their dominance in the software market.

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