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bydeadzaphod
06, 2014 @10:43PM
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Attached to: New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists
The Dice that owns slashdot was originally a job listings site. The C compiler called Dice (http://www.binarydevotion.com/?p=76) was written by Matt Dillon, who now works on DragonflyBSD. No relation.
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bydeadzaphod
2013 @05:55PM
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Attached to: GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration
We should, but I don't think anyone has it well organized so far. This book is a good start though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work
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bydeadzaphod
2, 2013 @06:51PM
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Attached to: New Asteroid Mining Company Emerges
I really dislike the fact that we can't undo an unintentional mod here =-(
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bydeadzaphod
2, 2012 @05:57PM
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Attached to: What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated
No, I think fetlife already has that covered...
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bydeadzaphod
2012 @09:25PM
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Attached to: "SMSZombie" Malware Infects 500,000 Android Users In China
I've been wondering that since the 90s... SMS is a crude hack that was past due for replacement before most people ever heard of it.
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July 08, 2012 @04:00AM
I just modded up circletimessquare (444983) again. The end is potentially nigh.
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bydeadzaphod
12 @11:53PM
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Attached to: Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory
It may be worse than I thought. Our last few stories seem suspicious. I think perhaps slashdot has been at least partially compromised. Hopefully the new management notices soon.......
*waits impatiently*
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bydeadzaphod
12 @11:50AM
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Attached to: Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory
I read /. uncensored for the trolls and such. Usually there's some larfs
Perhaps, not today.
Same here. This may be the lamest troll thread I've ever seen on /.
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from the devil-puts-on-gloves dept.
gollito writes in with news that Microsoft has released an open source alternative to Google's BigTable file system, which is used on large distributed computer clusters. Matt Asay writes for CNet: "I also believe that Microsoft's fear-mongering around open source cost it years of productivity and quality gains that it could have been delivering to customers through open source. I hope that reign of ignorance is over."
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theodp writes: "Slate's Farhad Manjoo feels the end of voice-mail is nigh, and it won't be missed. Since March, Farhad's been using Google Voice to transcribe his voice-mail messages into text that he gets as skimmable e-mail. No more listening to at least a bit of each voice-mail message, hearing the same instructional prompts between each, and worrying about whether it's 9-to-archive and 7-to-skip (or vice versa). Goodbye and good riddance, says Manjoo, to an 'absurdly backward mode of human-computer interaction' that he half-jokes must violate the Geneva Conventions."
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bydeadzaphod
009 @07:48PM
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Attached to: eBay Fakes Devalue the Craft of Tomb Robbing
Ivory. If you can make convincing fake ivory and sell it you might save elephants.
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bydeadzaphod
2009 @11:20PM
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Attached to: Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo?
This is a perfect use case for AltME, which is set up specifically for running your own private, secure server, that logs all messages. It is very easy to install, set up and to maintain (I've been running servers with no problems for a few years now).
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bydeadzaphod
2009 @04:40PM
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Attached to: Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps
I have mod points right now but your post was so misguided that I feel obligated to post here instead of using them...
He goes so far in the article to try to confuse the meaning of 'free' versus 'open', implying they are essentially the same thing. They aren't, and never will be.
The only person confusing 'free' and 'open' here is you. TFA contains only a single occurrence of the word 'open' and then only in relation to standards, not software. RMS has never been a proponent of 'open source' software per se, and takes every opportunity he gets to distinguish the difference between the OSS movement and the free software movement.
Now that OSS has become even slightly accepted his usefulness as a supporter of OSS is diminished, so he's taking it to the next level and trying to say all non-free software is bad. Read that carefully, 'non-free'. Not open. In this article he in a round about way attacks 'open' standards that are not 'free' by his definition.
He was never a supporter of OSS, he is a supporter of "free software". Nor is he now "taking it to the next level"; he has been at that same level for longer than many of the people reading this have been alive. He has always said that all non-free software is a bad thing. His goals have been clearly stated since the original announcement of the GNU project in 1983. The only reason the attacks on standards that are 'open' but not 'free' are roundabout in this article is that it is a minor side issue to his main point about web applications; if he were writing about standards I expect he would be quite direct on his opposition to any standard that is 'non-free'.
If anyone is the unclear on what the difference between 'free' and 'open' is in this context, I suggest reading 'Why âoeOpen Sourceâ misses the point of Free Software'.
All of that having been said, I do not personally agree with RMS about the inherent wrongness of using or working on 'non-free' software. In fact I have made my living working on a commercial web application for the last several years. Despite this, I fully support his idea of making it easy to know how the software you run is licensed (even in the browser) and giving users the choice of whether or not to allow software licensed in a way they do not appove of to be run on their machines. With regard to the idea of allowing modified Javascript code to be used, I like the idea in principle, but having worked on a large web app and having had to debug issues caused by cached obsolete Javascript, I have concerns about the practicality of ever using such a feature.
Finally, I think you are a jerk and a troll. Comparing RMS to the Church of Scientology? Really? Get a life.
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bydeadzaphod
05, 2009 @12:36AM
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Attached to: Web of Trust For Scientific Publications
I agree that this is a great idea, and with your criticism of the implementation. I would like to see this as a website, compatible with the existing tool, funded by Google, and written by someone other than me (although I am willing to help).
It could be sort of like MySpace for science ;-)
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bydeadzaphod
2008 @05:58PM
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Attached to: What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered?
The deepening of your voice due to testosterone is irreversible, so when going through a sex-change your voice doesn't change. Most of us just practice changing our voices the same way you would if you were faking it.
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