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RTS "World in Conflict" From a Design Perspective - Slashdot
2008-06-04 22:05:00 RTS "World in Conflict" From a Design PerspectiveSlashdot - 48 minutes agoIn this installment he takes a look at the RTS, World in Conflict that has an interesting twist on resource management. "World in Conflict has a simple ...
Estimated World Population to Pass 6666666666 Today - Slashdot
2008-05-09 21:56:00 Estimated World Population to Pass 6666666666 TodaySlashdot - 5 hours agosuso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6666666666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any ...
Estimated World Population to Pass 6666666666 Today - Slashdot
2008-05-09 20:55:00 Estimated World Population to Pass 6666666666 TodaySlashdot - 33 minutes agosuso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6666666666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any ...
The Ron Paul Effect
2008-05-04 14:18:00 Well I saw this story on Digg last night but I could not get the video to show up because the blog in question was using a relatively new video search engine called Redlasso. This morning was another story because as I was doing my daily blog walk around the internet lanes, the folks over at Liberty ...
NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World - Slashdot
2008-05-03 13:06:00 NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming WorldSlashdot - 4 hours agoSuppose you are writing a gaming engine and there must be coordination between the location of the characters in the 3D world, coupled to their movements, ...
NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World - Slashdot
2008-05-03 11:42:00 NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming WorldSlashdot - 9 minutes agoSuppose you are writing a gaming engine and there must be coordination between the location of the characters in the 3D world, coupled to their movements, ...
IronMan, Software Libre y Open Source - Rapiditas de Slashdot y Barrapunto
2008-05-01 22:51:00 Rapiditas de Slashdot y Barrapunto: La ciencia de Iron Man: La revista New Scientist da un vistazo a las pruebas de base detrás de la ciencia y la tecnología en la nueva película de Iron Man, y considera que es bastante sólido. Desde exoskeletons en tiempo real a la traducción hay al menos una prueba de concepto ...
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Do you get more traffic using SEO, SMO or SM?
2008-04-25 09:50:00 Let’s illustrate these 3 top ways to attack lots of visitors step by step: SM Sado Masochism "Used by Rihanna", SEO: Search Engine Optimization "Used by Linky Love", SMO: Social Media Optimization "Used by Atomic Blogging" 3. Use SMO to attract more visitors SEO or Social Media Optimization is extremely well explained and made easy by Alvin Phang in ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Do you get more traffic using SEO, SMO or SM?", url: "http://www.linkylove.net/make--money-online-add-your-link-exch-ange-2008-04-25/do-you-get-more--traffic-using-seo-smo-or-sm.ht-ml" });
Slashdot and Ars Technica – Most Overrated Blogs According to Time
2008-04-07 22:47:00 Digital Inspiration – The Best 25 Blogs in the Word according to TIME Magazine. TIME Magazine today released a list of top 25 blogs which they say are the best blogs in the world for 2008 – good read and worth saving to your del.icio.us bookmarks. Though the TIME?s list includes most usual suspects like ... read more
New Wordpress Plugins-Socibook 0.8
2008-04-05 23:00:00 Hey! Here’s another great wordpress plugin that you should look at!Category: Comment Plugins >> Bookmarking Author: Erik Description: A really simple plugin that will add bookmark links of Del.icio.us, Digg it, Slashdot, RawSugar, Yahoo! MyWeb, and many other links before the comments area. You can decide which bookmark services you want to show and in what order. ...
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The Oprah Effect: Equal to Slashdot or Digg?
2008-03-31 19:05:00 Data Center Knowledge – The popularity of Oprah Winfrey tested the limits of Internet streaming video in March, when the debut of Oprahs webcast attracted 500,000 simultaneous users, causing capacity-related performance problems. It turns out Oprah is also wreaking havoc with web sites for companies mentioned on her ... read more
Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator - Slashdot
2008-02-19 00:47:00 Wired NewsPictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear AcceleratorSlashdot - 2 hours agoWired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the ...World's Longest Accelerator Probes Universe's Tiniest Particles Wired Newsall 3 news articles
Vulnerabilidad PRNG en Darwin? Slashdot no aclara nada (pero parece que ah
2008-02-10 15:13:00 Amit Klein publica hace ya meses una vulnerabilidad en el PRNG (generador de números arbitrarios) que permite el atacante conseguir el próximo ID. Ya que el problema es específico a todos los Unix de clase BSD, Apple Darwin se cuenta entre ellos. Lo confuso de Slashdot es que aseguran que BSD se ha negado a ...
Best Laptop for Going Around the World? - Slashdot
2008-02-07 01:10:00 Best Laptop for Going Around the World?Slashdot - 2 hours agomitbeaver writes "I'm planning a round-the-world trip. 6+ months in developing countries, including Everest base camps 1 & 2, the deserts of Namibia and ...
Best Laptop for Going Around the World? - Slashdot
2008-02-06 23:48:00 Best Laptop for Going Around the World?Slashdot - 3 hours agomitbeaver writes "I'm planning a round-the-world trip. 6+ months in developing countries, including Everest base camps 1 & 2, the deserts of Namibia and ...
DIGG vs. SlashDot
2008-01-30 20:02:00 This is an interesting article at the NYT about SlashDot's new site "idle" set to compete against DIGG. There are some interesting quotes from CmdrTaco (Slashdot's founder) about how DIGG is broken. Basically it comes down to the debate around the "Wisdom of the Crowd" vs. "The Tyranny of the Mob". I am of the opinion that DIGG is a "Tyranny of the Mob" site where a small vocal minority can drive stories. You can read through the comments in the article and see the support for that argument. I've written about this before with regards to DIGG vs StumbleUpon: Digg is broken - Virtual Schrödinger's Law. CmdrTaco echo's my opinion. An open platform that relies on the wisdom of crowds is prone to coercion by a vocal minority. This reflects our political system that is a representative republic and not a popular democracy. Is CmdrTaco an Elitist then?...
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INTROVERSION ON STAYING AN INDEPENDENT GAMES STUDIO (SLASHDOT)
2008-01-29 18:46:00 Dr. Eggman writes “bit-tech.net has up an discourse with Introversion Games, creators of Uplink, Darwinia, and Defcon, on the hornlike impact it takes to attain games independently. They handle the challenges and rewards, ranging from nonindustrial newborn technologies for their upcoming game, Subversion, to impact their possess call in Darwinia — and nearly bankrupting themselves in the process. ‘When we …
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MySpace Private Pictures Leak (slashdot)
2008-01-26 10:04:00 Martin writes “We all heard about the MySpace vulnerability that allowed everyone to access pictures that have been set to private at MySpace. That vulnerability got closed down pretty fast. Unfortunately though (for MySpace) someone … Original post by unknown
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SecondLife Bans Unregistered In-World Banks - Slashdot
2008-01-09 23:43:00 TechCrunchSecondLife Bans Unregistered In-World BanksSlashdot - 3 hours agoI barely trust my real world bank to do the right thing with my money, to say nothing of trusting some virtual bank. by Nimey (114278) on Wednesday January ...Second Life bans banks from imaginary world m-netSecond Life Bans Traditional Banking Wired NewsTop 10 Articles of 2007 and Avatar of the Year: The Seventh Sun ... Reutersall 19 news articles
The World's Cheapest Car Set To Launch - Slashdot
2007-12-31 06:47:00 Peninsula On-lineThe World's Cheapest Car Set To LaunchSlashdot - 2 hours agoIndia's giant Tata Group is on the verge of launching the world's cheapest car. The People's Car, slated to be unveiled January 10th at a New Delhi auto ...Indians to launch world's cheapest car The AustralianIndia's Tata group set to launch world's cheapest car AFPIndia's giant Tata Group plans to launch the world's cheapest car ... Radio Australiaall 82 news articles
IBM Finding Business Uses for Virtual World - Slashdot
2007-12-21 03:50:00 IBM Finding Business Uses for Virtual WorldSlashdot - 3 hours agojbrodkin writes "IBM has an unconventional take on virtual worlds for business use. Rather than strictly adhering to the laws of physics, IBM is letting its ...Second Life Marketer Fires 22 Real-World Employees Marketing Vox NewsIBM cooks up its internal virtual world for confidentiality, security ZDNetStarting Your Business' Second Life Entrepreneurall 4 news articles
IBM Finding Business Uses for Virtual World - Slashdot
2007-12-21 03:50:00 CNNMoney.comIBM Finding Business Uses for Virtual WorldSlashdot - 9 hours agojbrodkin writes "IBM has an unconventional take on virtual worlds for business use. Rather than strictly adhering to the laws of physics, IBM is letting its ...Second Life still living its first one CNNMoney.comSecond Life Marketer Fires 22 Real-World Employees Marketing Vox NewsIBM cooks up its internal virtual world for confidentiality, security ZDNetEntrepreneurall 6 news articles
Tips to Get Slashdotted and Survive Slashdot Effect
2007-11-28 22:41:00 What is the meant by getting Slashdotted? Did Slashdotters visit your site? If you dont know the answer, probably your site traffic has never been slashdotted before. Slashdotting is like a web traffic generator leads to many comments, lots of website traffic, more advertising revenue, crashed servers and expired bandwidth leading to more web hosting payments? the web traffic stats and web traffic analysis will say all. Welcome to Slashdot or better seen as /. Wikipedia defines The Slashdot effect as ?a particular example of how incoming links from a popular website can cause a smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. The name comes from the huge influx of web traffic that often results from sites being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable ? either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers fail to cope ...
iphone Keyboard Leads to Typso - Slashdot
2007-11-15 00:50:00 iphone Keyboard Leads to TypsoSlashdot - 1 hour agojfruhlinger writes “One of the selling points of the iphone was its revolutionary touch-screen full keyboard. But a study has shown that text messages sent … Read the entire original post via
Slashdot Anniversary Party Recap
2007-10-19 21:37:00 Two weeks ago, two of our best techs, Erick and Kris, informed me that Slashdot’s 10th Anniversary was upon us and that we had to host a regional anniversary party for them. Of course I agreed, because all of the following are awesome: Erick and Kris, Slashdot, Slashdotters and Parties. I reeled in approval from ...
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Designing Software With Privacy in Mind - Slashdot (Software News)
2007-10-07 13:06:00 Designing Software With Privacy in Mind - Slashdot DesigningSoftwareWith Privacy in MindSlashdot -57 minutes agoThe talk starts off by covering the basics of privacy, and privacy law, and then moves onto the important component: how to designsoftwarethat properly… Avnet Technology Solutions Links Partners to Software Developer … - Trading Markets (press release) Avnet Technology Solutions Links Partners toSoftwareDeveloper…Trad-ing Markets (press release), CA -4 hours ago"ISVs strive to reach new markets with theirsoftwareinnovations, but often must be able to provide a complete solution with both theirsoftwareand…Avnet Technology Solutions Bolsters Think Solutions InitiativeTrading Markets (press release)all 2 news articles Zune Drives Next Generation of Digital Music Experience With … - Press Media Wire (Press Release) CNET News.com Zune Drives Next Generation of Digital Music Experience With…Press Media W...
Ebay Hacked, User Info Posted (slashdot)
2007-09-27 07:00:00 *Ebay* Hacked, User Info Posted (slashdot) via Google Blog Search: eBay by unknown on 9/26/07 An anonymous reader writes "This morning a hacker posted the personal contact information and credit card data of 1200 ebay users on the eBay.com Trust & Saftey forums. eBay pulled the Trust & Safety forums off line, but not before one ...
UK Schools Will Fight CyberbullyingSearch Slashdot
2007-09-27 02:49:00 Plutonite writes “The BBC is running a story on UK schools being told by the education minister to fight cyberbullying, by which they mean bullying with the aid of (network-based) technology. Schools have been told to confiscate mobile phones, and, more controversially, to investigate and get material removed from personal social-networking sites. Are schools supposed ...
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Gartner Says Open Source “Impossible To Avoid”Search Slashdot
2007-09-21 15:34:00 alphadogg writes in with a Network World article that covers a Gartner open source conference, in which VP Mark Driver seems to be going out of his way to be provocative. “You can try to avoid open source, but it’s probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code…” After this lead-in, in which open source seems to be regarded as some kind of communicable disease, the rest of the article outlines a perfectly rational plan for developing an open source strategy.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Search Slashdot stories (more…) Share This
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Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World - Slashdot
2007-09-16 10:39:00 Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the WorldSlashdot - 3 hours agoHugh Pickens writes "Blacksmith Institute has published their list of the most polluted sites in the world compiled by comparing the toxicity of the ...
Lindor Attacks Record Company Copyright-PoolingSearch Slashdot
2007-09-16 01:06:00 NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Back in March, 2006, Marie Lindor called the record companies suing her a collusive cartel, and their joint agreement to pool their copyrights “copyright misuse” (pdf). A year and a half later, the RIAA apparently got nervous about that allegation and made a motion to strike the allegations. Ms. Lindor has struck back, ...
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Compiz Gets Thumbs-Up for Gutsy GibbonSearch Slashdot
2007-09-14 20:46:00 Da Chronic writes “After a vigorous debate at the last Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, the board decided to ship Ubuntu 7.10 with Compiz enabled by default. The decision was made despite the fact that Compiz still has some significant issues relating to drivers and Xorg. ‘For instance, there are some problems — like accelerated video ...
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A Coveted Landing Strip for Google’s FoundersSearch Slashdot
2007-09-14 00:48:00 An anonymous reader writes “The NYT reports, “In the annals of perks enjoyed by America’s corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes’ drive from their offices. For $1.3 million a year, Larry Page and Sergey Brin get to park their customized wide-body Boeing 767-200, as well as two other jets used by top Google executives, on Moffett Field, an airport run by NASA that is generally closed to private aircraft.”Read more of this story at Slashdot. Search Slashdot stories (more…) Share This
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IBM Joins OpenOffice.org CommunitySearch Slashdot
2007-09-11 12:19:00 Petrushka writes “In a press release today, with accompanying press FAQ, IBM announces a change in its relationship to the OpenOffice.org development community. The upshot is that they’re making a long-term commitment to OOo; no organization has paid off any other organization for this; they’re devoting about 35 of their developers in China to OOo; and they’ll be contributing accessibility code from Lotus Notes to improve current support for assistive technologies. You may recall that an alleged shortage of assistive technologies that work with OOo has been one of the big criticisms leveled against the idea of governments standardizing on the OpenDocument format, which is a file format that OOo and several other office suites support.”Read more of this story at Slashdot. Search Slashdot stories (more…) Share This
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Hynix 48-GB Flash MCPSearch Slashdot
2007-09-07 15:30:00 Hal_Porter writes to let us know that the third-largest NAND chip maker, Hynix, has announced they have stacked 24 flash chips in a 1.4mm thick multi-chip package. It’s not entirely clear from the article whether the resulting 48-GB device is a proof of concept or a product. The article extrapolates to 384 GB of storage ...
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New Google Apps For Linux ComingSearch Slashdot
2007-09-03 23:58:00 techoon writes “The goal of the Google Linux Client Team is to develop Linux desktop applications, such as the official Linux versions of Google Earth and Google Picasa. This team made an interesting splash during a presentation at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus. The ...
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Doom and Gloom for Web RadioSearch Slashdot
2007-09-03 17:17:00 DailyTech posted interviews with the founder of Pandora and management from Proton Radio (and Proton Music) asking them what SoundExchange’s latest rulings mean to them. A lot of net radio stations are dreading the upcoming changes in royalty rates, which are said to be around 400%… a number that would bankrupt most of the industry. ...
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New Failsafe Graphics Mode For UbuntuSearch Slashdot
2007-09-03 01:58:00 ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. “It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate ...
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Monster.com Malware Tags Another SiteSearch Slashdot
2007-09-02 18:39:00 bl8n8r writes “The first wave of problems for Monster.com came in the form of malware as recruiters cluelessly pointed trojaned Windows systems into Monster’s database. The incident reportedly gleaned more than 1.6 million records from the job search site’s database. The second incident followed two days later in the form of an infected Monster.com server ...
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Entering Passwords Through Eye MovementSearch Slashdot
2007-09-02 01:55:00 Stu Dennison writes “Ars Technica has a post up on a new service called EyePassword. EyePassword is a system that attempts to mitigate the issues of shoulder-surfing via a novel approach to user input: no hands required. With EyePassword, a user enters their password using an on-screen keyboard that detects the orientation of their pupils. ...
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Financial Services Firms Simulate Flu PandemicSearch Slashdot
2007-08-30 17:42:00 jcatcw writes “The U.S. Government is co-sponsoring a three-week exercise that will simulate the impact of a flu pandemic on financial services firms, including their ability to support telecommuters. The exercise is expected to be the largest in U.S. history and will involve more than 1,800 firms. From the article: ‘The program will follow a ...
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Brain Implants Relieve Alzheimer's Damage - Slashdot
2007-08-30 08:08:00 Brain Implants Relieve Alzheimer's DamageSlashdot -14 minutes agoGenetically engineered cells implanted in mice have cleared away toxic plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. The animals were sickened with a human … More: continued here
Chicago Cancels Municipal Wi-Fi PlanSearch Slashdot
2007-08-30 05:58:00 thatshortkid writes “The Chicago Tribune is reporting that a proposed plan for municipal wi-fi in Chicago has fallen apart. The story cites contract disputes and the falling price of residential broadband as reasons for the talks collapsing. ‘Chicago officials had intended that the city would offer infrastructure, but no cash, to a carrier that would ...
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Girl’s Heart Regenerates With Artificial AssistSearch Slashdot
2007-08-30 00:32:00 Socguy writes with news about a 15-year-old girl who has become the first Canadian to have an artificial heart removed after her own heart healed itself. “Doctors at the Stollery Children’s hospital implanted the Berlin Heart, a portable mechanical device that keeps blood pumping in an ailing heart, so she could survive until a transplant became available. But over the next few months, Melissa’s overall condition improved dramatically, and her heart muscle regained much of its strength. After 146 days on the Berlin Heart, Melissa underwent surgery to have the device removed.”Read more of this story at Slashdot. Search Slashdot stories (more…) Share This
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Quick and Dirty Penryn BenchmarksSearch Slashdot
2007-08-26 14:44:00 An anonymous reader writes “So Intel has their quad-core Penryn processors all set and ready to launch in November. There are benchmarks for the dual-core Wolfdale all over the place, but this seems to be the first article to put the quad-core Yorkfield to the test. It looks like the Yorkfield is only about 7-8% faster than the Kentsfield with similar clock speeds and front-side bus.”Read more of this story at Slashdot. Search Slashdot stories (more…) Share This
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Gamma Ray Anomaly Could Test String TheorySearch Slashdot
2007-08-26 02:13:00 exploder writes “String theory is notorious for its lack of testable predictions. But if the MAGIC gamma-ray telescope team’s interpretation is correct, then a delay in the arrival of higher-energy gamma rays could point to a breakdown of relativity theory. A type of ‘quantum lensing effect’ is postulated to cause the delay, which is approximately four minutes over a half-billion year journey.” Ars’s writeup is a little more fleshed-out than the Scientific American blog posting.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Search Slashdot stories (more…) Share This
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Astronomers Find Huge Hole in UniverseSearch Slashdot
2007-08-25 01:02:00 realwx writes “Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole that is nearly a billion light years across. “Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size,” said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota. Rudnick’s colleague Liliya R. ...
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Gen Con 2007 In A NutshellSearch Slashdot
2007-08-23 17:58:00 Another year, another Gen Con? Hardly. This year was the 40th anniversary of Gen Con, marked the announcement of the newest edition of Dungeons and Dragons, and was the first year videogame companies were actively sought out as exhibitors. Put together this resulted in what felt like record crowds, a healthy dealer’s hall, and an ...
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DARPA Files Patent On Predictive SimulationSearch Slashdot
2007-08-23 02:30:00 An anonymous reader writes “New Scientist has a post on a patent filed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), seeking to control a new potent predictive simulation. The patent outlines the process, which may someday allow researchers to accurately predict the behavior of observed subjects. They’re not there yet, but not for lack ...
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Benchmarking Power-Efficient ServersSearch Slashdot
2007-08-22 08:21:00 modapi writes “According to the EPA, data centers — not including Google et al. — are on track to double power consumption in the next five years, to 3% of the US energy budget. That is a lot of expensive power. Can we cut the power requirement? We could, if we had a reliable way ...
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