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You're hardly a software developer - you aren't willing to find solutions yourself

You know, I used to have this kind of attitude. Then I grew up.

Did you know Dennis Ritchie uses Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook to read email and post to Usenet? Have you every thought about why?

The thing is this: everything works out of the box in Windows XP (well, except for the sound card, but the workaround is posted online and it about 15 minutes of bother to get going). I, at this point in my life, have better things to do with my time than to get things to work in Linux when they already work in Windows. Such as actually develop software.

This is the problem with the Linux community at Slashdot. It's a very immature and insecure community; when people mention they have problems and are using Windows instead because of those problems, people react with denial and attack the messenger instead of being mature and acknowledging the problems.

Excuse me, but I tried compiling various ALPS drivers in CentOS. I spent, oh, about 2 hours on it and, to make a long story short, it didn't work. If the Linux community wants to flame me instead of trying to help me (or, at least being civil), that's fine. Your message is clear: You don't want people using Linux. You want people using Windows XP. You do not want to make Linux a viable desktop operating system.

And, oh, about Ubuntu: It was very unstable for me, with constant crashes. I blogged all about it.

Thanks for playing.

Linux zealots piss me off.

Er, Linux can do the immutable dance too... not just a BSD specific thing

Although now that I think of it... how does setting +i on everything help?

Perhaps this is a better link for Polywell Fusion.

Perhaps if the D-T reactor does really well they can redesign it to handle a fuel composed of hydrogen ions (protons, in other words) and Boron-11 ions. The products of this reaction are helium-4 ions, which are not radioactive and do not induce radioactivity in their containment vessel if they are captured electrically. Electrical capture also avoids the losses associated with converting heat to electricity.

I really hope General Fusion gets this to work, but if I had any money, my money would be on EMC2 Corp, which is working on inertial electrostatic fusion. This or this should get you started on a search for more information.

How about a garbage collector appreciation day?

That's on October 10th.

Thank God, I hate memory leaks.

How about a garbage collector appreciation day?

That's on October 10th.

Roee Hay's blog and a movie to demonstrate it : Movie on youtube showing successful attack

GG WP!!

story is false -- EMI works with lots of indie stores. check this out http://starkmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/07/quick-moment-to-respond.html

[..] it has been unambiguously ruled that trying to copyright a photograph of something in the public domain does not add any creative value to the painting and thus does not constitute a novel creative work [...]

http://lawclanger.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-not-often-that-copyright-cases-get.html

Unambiguously? tell it to the UK's National Portrait Gallery.

Wikipedia reveals an Interesting Fact:

You linked to the Pentagon Papers, which were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg.

Representing Ellsberg at trial was none other than Charles Nesson, known more recently on Slashdot for the defense of Tenenbaum (which can be looked up here).

This not a troll. I am serious. For a full analysis read here --> http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html

Some choice quotes

Indeed (as we'll see), every decade since the '80s, billions of dollars and gazillions of man-hours have been invested in this fundamental error, to end routinely in disaster. It's as though the automotive industry had a large ongoing research program searching for the perpetual-motion engine.

The error is that control interfaces must not be intelligent. Briefly, intelligent user interfaces should be limited to applications in which the user does not expect to control the behavior of the product. If the product is used as a tool, its interface should be as unintelligent as possible. Stupid is predictable; predictable is learnable; learnable is usable.

I was reminded of this lesson by a brief perusal of Wolfram Alpha, the hype machine's latest gift. Briefly: there is actually a useful tool inside Wolfram Alpha, which hopefully will be exposed someday. Unfortunately, this would require Stephen Wolfram to amputate what he thinks is the beautiful part of the system, and leave what he thinks is the boring part.

WA is two things: a set of specialized, hand-built databases and data visualization apps, each of which would be cool, the set of which almost deserves the hype; and an intelligent UI, which translates an unstructured natural-language query into a call to one of these tools. The apps are useful and fine and good. The natural-language UI is a monstrous encumbrance, which needs to be taken out back and shot. It won't be.

et's examine this difference between Google and WA. Basically, Google is the exception: the UI that is not a control interface. Because Google's search interface is not a control interface, it should be an intelligent interface, as of course it is.

Google is not a control interface because intrinsic to the state of performing a full-text search is the assumption that the results are to some extent random. Let's say I've heard of some blog called "Unqualified Reservations" and I type it into Google.

Am I sure that the first result will be the blog itself? I suppose I'm about 95% sure. Do I have any idea what will come next? Of course not. Will I automatically click on the first result? Certainly not. I will look first. Because for all I know, the million lines of code that parsed my query could be having a bad hair day, and send me to Jim Henley instead.

Google is not a control interface, because no predictable mapping exists between control input and system behavior, and none can be expected. A screwdriver is a control interface because if I am screwing in a screw and I turn the handle clockwise, I expect the screw to want to go in. If the screw is reverse threaded, it will want to come out instead, confusing me dreadfully. Fortunately, this mapping is not random; it is predictable. (Yes, Aspies, by "random" I mean "arbitrary.")

But if you are an actual flow user who actually needs to get something done, WA could give you an alternative, manual interface for selecting your tool. You might perform the discovery task by browsing, say, a good old-fashioned menu. For example, the Nutrition Facts tool might come with its own URL, which you could bookmark and navigate to directly. There might even be a special form for entering your recipe. Yes, I know none of this is very high-tech. (Obviously the coolest thing would be a true command line - but the command line is truly not for all.)

A more intriguing question is whether the Graffiti approach can be applied to full-text search. Many modern search engines, notably the hideous, awfully-named Bing, are actually multiple applications under the hood - just like WA. If Bing figures out that you are searching for a product, it will show you

"Browser choice in operating systems?" You already had a choice, and nobody is stopping you from downloading Firefox. The EU's browser ballot decision is a bizarre decision to prop up products that have floundered in the marketplace (e.g., Opera). They're basically calling you, the consumer, too stupid to type "www.opera.com" into an Internet Explorer box. The EU stepping in to enforce how companies do business (such as telling them how to bill their customers, who are free to choose someone else if they don't like how they're billed) is socialist intervention that should not be happening.

There are plenty of really stupid EU decisions and criticisms from Europeans . You just need to step outside of Slashdot once in a while.

They might want to choose another image---the command entry area in the image of emacs on the linked page has an error in it: "(s-print) is undefined".

I remember a great AIM client for it (tnt I think)

Yep. Kids these days can use M-x twit-show-recent-tweets. Nope, I'm not kidding.

...in yesterday's post on Mike Shedlock's blog. He makes a telling point: "Bear in mind, you can only sell the Capital Building once. Then what? Is anyone looking ahead?"

It's not a matter of being a conspiracy theorist. Consider the facts: The study focuses on the nutritional value exclusively; not overall health benefits, of which nutritional value would be a factor. I don't know about you, but when I hear people talking about organic food, I've never heard it mentioned that one of their discriminating criteria is because it has a higher content of nutrients. Even advertisments and propaganda literature that promote organic products typically mention the fact that they contain no chemical enhancers or additional growth hormones, which can affect our metabolisms. It seems to me rather strange that these are precisely the factors that the study did not address.

You're either not living in the same world as I am, or you're being dishonest. Google seems to think the latter...

http://www.organicfoodinfo.net/
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/its-not-just-a-fad--organic-food-is-better-for-you-say-scientists-443086.html
http://cookingallergyfree.blogspot.com/2009/03/organic-food-has-more-nutrients.html
http://stanford.wellsphere.com/organic-food-article/organic-food-has-more-nutrients-here-are-some-stats/685668

There's more. I'm tired of copy+pasting them. Look it up, people say it all the time. It is a perfectly valid thing to study, even if it were the only thing they looked into.

The thing that annoys me the most is that people get all flustered over this. Why not just eat what you want to eat and leave others to do the same?

Lots of stuff can happen. He could be hit by a car or could have suffered heart attack. How come they would not consider this simple possibility of RL intervention.

Maybe you could read something more than just the summary. "Lance basically is not actively involved in the project anymore. He attends meetings irregularly. If he was present and was asked certain things, he usually said that he need to look that up or he will do that later. But that never happened. And next to the meetings we do not see or hear from him at all."

I'm wondering just what kind of heart attack he could have had that let him still attend meetings and promise to do things, but not do or say anything else about them?

"http://lestighaniker.de/2009/07/30#open-letter-to-lance-davis"> "

So he had a heart attack when he was hit by a car and has been lying around in a hospital bed for the last eight months, unable to speak or do anything... but in addition to attending the occasional meeting of the CentOS team he was able to rouse himself for just long enough to lock down his personal ownership of the centos.org domain without saying a word about it to anybody? Maybe he was sleepwalking when he did that.

From Tim Verhoeven. It explains the issues a little more in depth.
Read the post here.

Oh no! Please don't tell me you're still carrying that old myth around.
http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/11/risks-and-benefits-of-ddt-from-lancet.html
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/11/ddt-spencer.php

Valencia, Spain is now the heart of Europe's "Fertility Tourism". When you go there, the streets have a high proportion of couples with asian babies. Valencia has the foremost fertility clinics in Spain, and renowned in all of Europe for their top research facilities like the "Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad" in Valencia Uni. Valencian men have amongst the poorest quality sperm in all Spain, possibly Europe. Valencia also happens to be the focal point of a massive basin where intense agricultural activity takes place, growing among other things, Oranges for Europe. All water tables lead to Valencia. Now discounting environmental effects and just judging by sterility levels, what _possible_ beneficial effects could outweigh having your population being sterile? Perhaps you mean profits? Please don't say the industry line of "feeding the worlds poor" - rice does that, and pushing genetically modified rice that is "resistant" to disease and needs companies like Monsanto to sell pesticides just to keep it alive and seeds to reproduce is creating a fragile monoculture, destroying poor communities. The world renowned Dr Vandana Shiva can educate you better based on decades of experience.

I'm assuming you know that what you wrote isn't true - so why did you write it?

There's lots of peer reviewed science contradicting the IPCC reports (which is not surprising, there have been some reports published in recent years that the IPCC haven't bothered to look at yet) - if you're really interested in the subject you would know about it :)

http://petesplace-peter.blogspot.com/2008/04/peer-reviewed-articles-skeptical-of-man.html

(I did not compile the list, but I scrolled through it and recognised many of the entries. It seems valid)

That same idea is expressed in an article about why Wolfram-Alpha fails as a user interface.

I'll be pasting this wire service shit into my so-called "journal entries", as per usual. I can always automate OCR off of the screen. So what if hyperlinks aren't preserved? Context and reference can be established by the 1 or 2 blokes who are already actually verifying that stuff.

I'm sure that this won't stop Wired News, Cryptogon.com, Cannon Fire or any of the guys like whatreallyhappened.com - who dump a bit of everything undercovered into the mix. But it will slow them - a bit.

Instead of this crappy pseudo-technology, which has been shown to be ineffective in every other application, AP could profitably syndicate with Google, and share ad revenues. AP==content Google==delivery+revenue engine.

Instead, they want to kill the bloggers - not because of business models. Because they no longer gatekeep the message or manage how it is spun.

Great oligarchs own the megaconglomerates behind corporate news. That's not wild-eyed tinfoil hatted craziness, but simple facts from earnings reports. With incipient dictatorship in everywhere from Western Europe, the US, Iran and Israel, and a coming fiscal "crisis" designed to unify world reserve currency, there's a greater need than ever for these "overlords" - and the banks that loaned them their capital - to turn the Weird Wild Web into your 1984 telescreen.

So, they'll try. Soon, it won't be worth switching on the router - cause you'll be tracked like a migratory bird. In the meantime, we'll all still link and scrape. We'll still point out EXACTLY what they are up to.

I'll be pasting this wire service shit into my so-called "journal entries", as per usual. I can always automate OCR off of the screen. So what if hyperlinks aren't preserved? Context and reference can be established by the 1 or 2 blokes who are already actually verifying that stuff.

I'm sure that this won't stop Wired News, Cryptogon.com, Cannon Fire or any of the guys like whatreallyhappened.com - who dump a bit of everything undercovered into the mix. But it will slow them - a bit.

Instead of this crappy pseudo-technology, which has been shown to be ineffective in every other application, AP could profitably syndicate with Google, and share ad revenues. AP==content Google==delivery+revenue engine.

Instead, they want to kill the bloggers - not because of business models. Because they no longer gatekeep the message or manage how it is spun.

Great oligarchs own the megaconglomerates behind corporate news. That's not wild-eyed tinfoil hatted craziness, but simple facts from earnings reports. With incipient dictatorship in everywhere from Western Europe, the US, Iran and Israel, and a coming fiscal "crisis" designed to unify world reserve currency, there's a greater need than ever for these "overlords" - and the banks that loaned them their capital - to turn the Weird Wild Web into your 1984 telescreen.

So, they'll try. Soon, it won't be worth switching on the router - cause you'll be tracked like a migratory bird. In the meantime, we'll all still link and scrape. We'll still point out EXACTLY what they are up to.

Theres a nice little article over at the 360 blog here listing exactly what mobile operators frequently get wrong with their security architecture and execution. Once wonders if they understand the basics!

So will they be distributing posters that shows people exactly what they should not do?

FYI, I found this from this blog.

So will they be distributing posters that shows people exactly what they should not do?

FYI, I found this from this blog.

"The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to MANY abilities, some consider to be... unnatural!" - Darth Sidious/Lord Palpatine, last of the SITH LORDS...

Or, my 'naysayers' really in THEY essentially being "the jedi"... what I propose here is often beyond their limited "I read it in a manual or a forums & that MUST be the 'only way' or 'best way'" type b.s. they try to pass off as "know-how"... lol! They're merely "users with a better password", who merely USE what guys like myself (who have done their job, & FAR MORE, as a coder/software engineer/programmer as well as network engineer/admin/tech too in my time professionally in this art & science) created for them to USE... & that is about it.

They're SEVERELY "limited in scope" as to their abilities, period. At least by comparison to coders... by far.

HOW CAN I SAY THAT? Simple, look @ their suggestions & my replies in rebuttal (I easily shut them down on every point, with proofs or tests they themselves can try even (IF they could code, most of them? Cannot... limited!)

"You must break thru the fog of lies the jedi have created around you. Let me help you to know the subtleties of the force...Anakin, if one is to understand the 'great mystery' one must understand, ALL OF ITS ASPECTS... NOT just the narrow, dogmatic view of the Jedi: IF you wish to become a wise leader, one must embrace... a LARGER view of the force..." - Darth Sidious/Lord Palpatine, last of the SITH LORDS...

(Especially in light of this article, plus Dan Kaminsky's findings regarding problems in DNS servers, as well as Network Solutions going batty this week (iirc, & afaik, due to DNS poisoning in part (don't quote me on that though)) PLUS the fact that a HOSTS file does make you go faster, period, to which I also provide not only my own testimony thereof, but that of noted others + others responses here too?)

Hey - Well... read on:

"Duuude, by the time you setup your host file for all the sites you visit, the Internet age will be gone....Talk about "FAST"." - by flibuste (523578) on Wednesday July 29, @11:37AM (#28867215)

Not true, because MANY reputable sources for HOSTS files that already work well, exist, such as the one @ WIKIPEDIA (steer clear of the ones from FRANCE though):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

AND, to further populate it for security? You can use sites like these (excellent for it):

ZDNet's Mr. Dancho Danchev's weekly blog -> http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/

SRI -> http://mtc.sri.com/

& others, such as "Spybot 'Search & Destroy'", which also populates your HOSTS file (plus, Opera's filter.ini, FireFox/Mozilla's internal to browser 'block lists' as well as IE's "restricted zones" too...

(Stopbadware.org is good too - they're essentially, GOOGLE or partnered w/ them, afaik...)

APK

P.S.=> "The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway, to many abilities... some consider to be, 'unnatural'" but, it works for MANY abilities, including being faster & safer online (& this thread has plenty of evidence from myself + others to that effect as proof thereof, such as Mr. Oliver Day from SECURITYFOCUS.COM) but, "Is it possible to learn this power?" & answer is "NOT FROM A JEDI" - the 'jedi' being these 'users with a better password only at best/most' in network techs/network admins, with their LIMITED scope & knowledge in this field (as opposed to the TRUE 'sith', in coders/programmers/software engineers, who invent the tools those same "jedi" MERELY USE, but do not create, themselves, period)... apk

I also look forward to sinking oil tankers and garbage swirls.

First hit on Google.
http://3g4g.blogspot.com/2007/05/3g-39g.html

I recall Fake Steve Jobs had some rather insightful thoughts on this.

The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster.

What I would like to know is how exactly did this code get in the driver to begin with.

Well, you could try, you know, *researching*.

This saga started when one of the user's on the Vyatta forum inquired about supporting Hyper-V network driver in the Vyatta kernel. A little googling found the necessary drivers, but on closer examination there was a problem. The driver had both open-source components which were under GPL, and statically linked to several binary parts. The GPL does not permit mixing of closed and open source parts, so this was an obvious violation of the license.

So the problem was not, in fact, that GPLed code had become "embedded" in Microsoft's code, the problem was that they statically linked their code to some GPLed module.

Seeing as how, in the commercial software world, linking to other code is generally not something to be overly concerned with, it's actually not unreasonable to think that this was an innocent mistake by the developers responsible.

This is a great breakthrough. This means that we can now wear full face tinfoil hats for even more protection without risking to bump into something anymore. Thanks that tinfoil hats are actually made of aluminum nowadays ! ;-))

Imagine the progress for this brave user:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JVVaXmiE24g/RuYklvXfUqI/AAAAAAAAFDo/ES8XpC4bcbg/s400/tinfoil2.bmp

Tinfoil hats are made of aluminum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

here from 4 days ago

When this originally came up, at least one contributor on the OS News discussion (http://www.osnews.com/story/21882/Microsoft_s_Linux_Kernel_Code_Drop_Result_of_GPL_Violation) of the issue suggested that the GPL code that was being linked to Microsoft's binary blob was *also* Microsoft's code (see http://www.osnews.com/thread?374824 for example). I've not seen a definitive statement from an interested party either supporting or refuting this.

The guy who pointed out the violation to Greg KH notes that the driver contained GPL and closed portions, which is not consistent with the terms of the GPL license: http://linux-network-plumber.blogspot.com/2009/07/congratulations-microsoft.html

That doesn't contradict the idea that Microsoft was linking its own GPLed code to its own closed code, which would be inconsistent but would be within their rights if they are the copyright holder on both portions.

Of course, it's a different matter if their original GPLed shim contained others' GPLed code. Indeed, if it included Linux Kernel header files then it probably did, in which case it actually would have been violating those developers' copyrights. I don't see how that's worse than the way the NVidia (or any other closed source drivers) work, though - or do they do some cunning / evil trick to get around this situation? Linus has previously said that he thinks binary drivers are acceptable if they were written for another platform first and therefore not a derived work of the kernel - I think his opinion on that is inconsistent and nonsensical but it's easy to imagine that the MS binary portion of the driver was developed for other platforms and therefore believed to be covered by this.

Unlike Nvidia et al, MS has evidently realised that they'd look stupid not to release the code, so whilst they're not whiter-than-white they are actually doing better than some. Of course, they really need to do their best not to look hypocritical about intellectual property.

Are you sure about that?

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/03/daily-mail-dont-do-brown-acid.html
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/05/daily-fail-what-is-your-major.html
and many more.

Are you sure about that?

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/03/daily-mail-dont-do-brown-acid.html
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/05/daily-fail-what-is-your-major.html
and many more.

. We can do stuff like this, but we can't -or won't- guarantee healthcare for all. Sick. .

Yeah, OK. I'm not going to -completely- argue with that. But explain:

- My chiseled abs
- Ability to deadlift about 150-170lb without much effort and carry 100lb objects in front of me - extended - for a fair amount of time
- Able to do at least as much work (in both the time-lapse and scientific sense, sans their additional bulk) as someone slightly overweight, but muscular (and weighing 100lb more than I)

Yes, I have feminine, thin wrists. But I'm not a weakling by any reasonable estimation, unless you're only considering appearance. This (far right) is my little brother, who is noticeably more muscular than I am but does less work (though a lot more "exercise". He looks more femme and also somewhat more muscular than I do.

Point being, I'm not one of "those" idiots who slouch around all day and couldn't lift a cinderblock if it was on their throat. I literally have a difficult time gaining weight, and am almost always hungry. And it isn't because I'm a vegan or anything like that; I eat most every/anything. Looking at my family, it seems unlikely I'll be getting fat or muscular anytime soon, short of shooting up with 'roids. Maybe a little potbelly in 20 years if I sit around doing nothing and eating pretzels and beer for dinner, though (like some relatives). But never "fat".

I am not about to buy into the fossile-fuel-funded arguments that global warming "isn't real"...it's very real, as anyone living in the northern lattitudes can trivially see. Even in London it's obvious that insects and plantlife that never used to thrive this far north now do.

Hmm. A quick look at some raw NASA GISS data shows there's nothing unusual about recent temperatures in England.

Maybe you'd be interested in my recent blog post on the scientific case for and against climate change. I assure you I'm not receiving a penny from anyone for this. In fact, it's probably in my professional interest to prove global warming IS happening, since much of my research funding is dependent on it.

I've played Free Realms to a number of max-level job classes. Paying a $5/month subscription fee increases the number of classes available, from 10 to 15.

Another $5 buys you the best possible weapon in Free Realms, and it is usable at level 1. Tobold has a good writeup here: http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2009/05/limits-of-microtransactions.html

Note that Free Realms has no end-game. There are some questlines that open up at max-level (20), but no raiding or group PvP. So that $5 uber-weapon only helps you quest and level faster.

a good picture being better than a thousand words...

http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/

Wow. There's some pretty twisted racial overtones in those comments. I wonder how far South Africans have really come?

"Interestingly, there was a hijacking in Innaloo some months ago, it turns out the perpetrators were.... yep, Black Africans from Jo'burg! :-O"

"Funny that I sat at the pleasant tables of the Mark/Sands Hotels dining rooms arguing against a black takeover. I wonder what my opponents would say to these pictures now."

It's definitely much easier to blame the poorer occupants who moved in only to find city services and investment capital denied than to... you know, blame themselves for overbuilding or denying blacks civil services and opportunities. Perhaps this movie will say more about SA than locals will want to hear?

a good picture being better than a thousand words...

http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/

Right, so Google hasn't completely rebranded their "core product", but it's not like they're inactive on that front. See: Suggest, uber Search Options, and - what's this? - Searchology? An event "to update our users, partners, and customers on the progress we have made in search and tell them about new features"?

Right, so Google hasn't completely rebranded their "core product", but it's not like they're inactive on that front. See: Suggest, uber Search Options, and - what's this? - Searchology? An event "to update our users, partners, and customers on the progress we have made in search and tell them about new features"?

Right, so Google hasn't completely rebranded their "core product", but it's not like they're inactive on that front. See: Suggest, uber Search Options, and - what's this? - Searchology? An event "to update our users, partners, and customers on the progress we have made in search and tell them about new features"?

I'm not talking about his creations, although I don't think that creating the GPL is something to be proud of. :-P He gets all the credit in the world for emacs, though. I like it quite a bit.

But what I am talking about is his absolutely bugfuck-sad public behavior. A complete inability to understand and a habit of disregarding the opinions and feelings of others in a professional and personal context? That's pretty sad.

Whenever I hear about Linux in Germany, I think about the Munich migration. There's an ongoing debate as to whether or not it "is succeeding" or "will succeed".

Last time this came up on /. was a month ago.

The migration project is called LiMux, and you'll find many places online that campaign against it (or strongly criticize it, sometimes it's hard to tell).

But overall I think it's very good news that consumers are making a conscious decision, with their own wallets.

I don't remember what his reaction to this particular one was. He's a prolific crackpot, and all his theories and reactions are hard to keep distinct in my mind. This might have been the one where he decided I really was a top academic mathematician, coming to usenet to undermine him before he could carry out his plan to take us all down by having everybody's tenure removed. (I am not a mathematician, and am not in an academic position).

If you would like to examine some of the works of this prolific crank, he publishes them on his blog. If you want to enjoy his insanity away from the computer, an alternative is his book.

His early work is not covered at the blog, though, so if you want his proof of FLT, you'll have to dig in the usenet archives.

I hope FSJ covers this more :) This was hillarious! http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/ruby-on-rails.html

Its a vista-ster!