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What good are human editors if they can't act like human beings? At least digg had some info: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Hans_Reiser_of_reise rfs_has_been_arrested

Sure.

Unless, that is the kids are wanting to play it in a room with sunlight, or fluorescent or halogen lighting.

Or they want to play any decent game other than Zelda's Revenge XXVI for that matter.

how much did you pay for SP2?

A lot. Twice. MS makes a profit on Windows, somewhere about 70%-80% profit in fact. Then you pay again when you have to re-tool your whole shop for the differences found in XP SP2. That is, if you are still running out-dated architectures like MS Windows. Many of us don't pay a thing.

So, dude, just lay off with the faboi stuff and get over it: XP SP2 breaks a lot of software that worked under XP SP1 -- even today, in October of 2006.

I realize some of the MS fabois just don't know better (or don't want to), but many simply get paid to cruise blogs and websites and put in the good word for their masters and throw out the same canards again and again. However, because there are many more among those that read and don't post that haven't figured that tactic out it's necessary address them again and again:

The places that notice little or no effect between XP SP1 and XP SP2 are few. Even the reviews compared the effort of deploying SP2 to more like an OS upgrade than to anything else, let alone a "patch". Several sites I witnessed, could not deploy SP2 because it broke several of their mission critical apps, even on the desktop. In those cases, none of the vendors were quick about getting their over-priced cruft to work with SP2 for MS' over-priced cruft. One even tried to demand payment for development work.

In contrast, look how Debian (and some other systems) still does it. Patches address only specific problems and do not change the functionality of the software. In a production environment, it is essential that nothing changes until you yourself make it change. People pay the money for getting a known item. It will have advantages and disadvantages, but since they are known they can be planned around. Changing the specs means a lot of readjustment, which translates into lower return on investment.

Look at it this way. What if the gear ratio on your car changed occasionally and without advanced warning? Or if, after two years of using it daily, it suddenly turns into a diesel while the tank is full of gasoline? Or if the tires changed from summer, winter, or all-weather while driving? You get the idea. If you buy something to perform in a certain way, you expect it to continue performing that way for the life cycle of the product. It used to be that way even in IT. I guess it still is, with the exeception of MS and its products. I guess that's because so much of the MS business model is based on keeping customers on the treadmill and too busy to look around, let alone hop off.

Businesses like stability and predictability. Debian has those in spades and is attracting more users that way. As a result, the visibility of Debian is increasing and as that happens, an re-awakening of the knowledge that even IT can be reliable and predictable. Reliable and predictable == money.

Looks like fpgamerunner.com is going to suffer a slashdot and a digg effect... poor website..

Digg GameRunner

Free speech in the United States? 30 Days in jail for racial slur

If Google did buy out YouTube, it could simply rebrand its Google Video site with YouTube icons and the MySpace kids wouldn't even notice.

Google faces significant risks from rushing in behind YT, because Google has money and is eminently suable. They can't afford to simply let copywrite material fly, because the studios will attack them just as newspapers and book publishers already have.

A RoughlyDrafted Magazine article looking at Apple's iTV, and why Apple is in deals with Google, explains more about why YouTube is such a mess and why big pockets will just make that mess more problematic:

Apple's iTV and Alternative Content: the future of podcasting, porn, indie media.

The following article is getting high ratings as well, on how Apple is positioning the iTV as an extension of the iPod platform in casual gaming, living room Widgets, and interactive content, with a history on how Apple dropped the ball with HyperCard, how the web took over, and why Apple has something new to offer today :

iTV Interactive: The Apple Game Console

Digg featured the same story just the other day. It was on another website, but presented the same facts. But, as opposed to Slashdot, they ran the article under the headline "Most flirtatious avatar". Somehow, I find that funny.

I wonder how many Slashdotters thought this when they see the editors screw up: "damn it, if you can run a blog with that much nonsense and be successfull, I can run one too!" and parted on their way to glory.

If by "glory" you mean "Digg," then at least a few.

Artificial Intelligence is coming a lot sooner than 2020.

The Singularity Timetable predicts True AI in 2006; an AI landrush in 2007; human-level AI by 2008; and Superintelligent AI by 2012.

AI has been solved in both theory for neuroscience and software for robots.

A theory of artificial intelligence has been implemented in Forth for robots and in JavaScript for tutorial artificial intelligence.

AI in Forth is free, open-source artificial intelligence for robots.

JavaScript for Artificial Intelligence describes how even a simple language like JavaScript is ideal for instructional artificial intelligence tutorials.

The Joint Stewardship of Earth will be in effect long before the year 2020.

Turing Store Books tells you all about the very most important writings by human beings about the coming artificial intelligence.

Mind.html in JavaScript has an enormous installed user base and can no longer be stopped from engendering a global AI Mind by 2020 if not sooner.

The only good story in the past 6 hours and it's /.ed.

Time to lose some brain cells reading such interesting stories as "I'm a PC Guy" uses a Mac.

Don't worry about trying to get the word out about free games that run Linux on slashdot. I submitted a story about the new TC:E trailer (and upcoming release) but it seems the editors of the game section are more interested in minor "what if?" stories about potential PS3 features than an actual release of a free Linux (and OS X and windows) game at the end of the week.

Those of you with digg accounts, I would appreciate a digg on the same story:
http://www.digg.com/videos_gaming/Watch_the_traile r_for_the_upcoming_True_Combat_release

I don't think it's an incredibly bad submission, I even included the youtube link in the slashdot submission. Oh well, editors will be editors I suppose.

It certainly will be hacked within minutes of you going online -- if you manually disable the firewall. It's been enabled by default since SP2. Mac OS X is also vulnerable to being hacked if you go online without a firewall; does that mean it's a bad OS? No, it means you should use a firewall if you go online, in any OS. Basic stuff.

new interview in which perrin kaplan confirms that the wii is region free.

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Wii_is_Region_FREE_and _NO_DVD_PLAYBACK

Found it!

It was actually on digg a month ago, but whoever submitted the latest digg version linked to his blog instead of the actual page to get around their dupe detection.

Because it was just on Digg, that's why.

CNN Reported on this way back in March, what's changed between then and now??

More information on Jesse Sullivan

Or better yet, lets Digg the story posted 174 days ago!

Digg burial abuse seems to be overhyped. There are a lot of really bad stories on Digg, especially on the politics section.
For example, there's currently a story saying that MSNBC changed the question on a poll. OK, maybe it happened; but what's the source? Some dude posted a few screen shots on his blog. Correct or not, that story is possibly inaccurate because it presents no verifiable supporting evidence.

I ignore the home page and just check out the day's most popular page once or twice a day:

http://digg.com/view/technology/popular/today

It's not the front page of the NY Times and it's no doubt influenced by the much lamented front-page gaming, but I still usually find one or two interesting things that I hadn't heard about yet.

but to this day, they have yet to disappoint with their engineering/technical appeal... Solaris... Java.... now adding support for a wildly popular dynamically typed language... The only one that comes close to their engineering savvy is Apple. Not so long ago there was talk of a Sun-Apple (Snapple? :) merger - http://digg.com/apple/Dvorak_Is_an_Apple_Sun_Merge r_in_the_Works. I've been writing software for 10 years now, and I prefer the small company setting... but if I were to ever work for a large company again, I'd like it to be like Sun or Apple, with superb engineers around me who are going to make me re-examine everything I know on a daily basis and keep me challenged forever.

A group of students decided to replace Facebook with a student built and operated site... If Facebook really has lost touch with its userbase, perhaps these guys can offer a decent alternative to MySpace/Facebook for students. http://digg.com/software/Outraged_Students_Replace _Facebook I signed up, it's a little low on features, but they've only had a week. I think it's something to keep an eye on. -Dorango

Here in Australia the two PS3 levels are currently being advertised for $830AUD and $999AUD! I honestly cannot see how people can fork out so much for a console! Time will tell i guess... mind you, i have noticed the advertisements have dropped off substantially since the delay to release here was announced... http://digg.com/gaming_news/PS3_to_be_$830_$999_in _Australia_at_launch is a discussion on the Aussie pricing if anyone is interested.

I hope they don't get too confused:

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/1 5/1544240
http://digg.com/general_sciences/North_Pole_Moving _South_

No wonder those latent genes are turned off.

Well, here I was posting this information to Digg a full three days ago, when I really should have just submitted the story to slashdot. Of course, it's lack of diggs could have been influenced by pisspoor description. This is not whining, by the way, I am just interested in the sociometric qualities of story-submission dynamics in the slashdot/digg age.

Using the power of Digg to locate a missing person

http://digg.com/search?s=Using+the+power+of+Digg+t o+locate+a+missing+person

Some of us students have decided to replace Facebook with a community driven site. In the spirit of an open source project, the community will have a strong say in what goes in and what comes out. A site for students, by students. http://www.replacefacebook.net/

Also @ Digg http://digg.com/software/Outraged_Students_Replace _Facebook/

After running beta 2 on my production box for +/- two months now I can say yes it is stable. It even runs Civ4 better than XP. I expect the same from RC1 when I install it later today.

The real issue is has M$ the fixed the things that needed fixing. For instance the "annoy-the-user-to-death" security model and the undocumented symlink thing that even as administrator gives you a unfixable security warning when you try to make changes or follow the link.

Here is a live counter of the number of people who have joined the "Students against Facebook News Feed" group on Facebook..... 300,000 and climbing

http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Stalker_City_In cludes_LIVE_Counter

You don't want your customers actually using the stuff they're paying you for, after all.

If you don't mind equating freedom with slavery, then sure.

Nice try, but that's not how its working. If you want to make use of GPL code, you are then restricted to GPLing your software. Please explain how that's a choice for the developer.

In a free society, no one has the freedom to own slaves. In a free software environment, no one has the right to restrict other's use of software.

Actually I'd think in a totally free society you COULD sell yourself into slavery if you choose to do so. In your free software environment though you're taking away developers freedom if they choose to use GPL code. The result is that some developers end up re-inventing the wheel.

It is fundamentally a different model from either capitalism or socialism, because both assume limited resources and a means to fairly distribute them. Software, and knowledge in general, is fundamentally different. Material resourses, at the lowest level matter and energy, are fundamentally limited to at best a constant (so far as we know). Material resources must be divided between entities in some way. On the other hand, information is limited only by the material available to encode it. There is an infinite supply of information, and it is virtually free to replicate and create. While material resorces must be divided up for the greatest good, information must be muliplied out for the greatest good. Everyone should have the best information available, since that translates into the highest possibly efficiency for use of material resources, effectively maximizing the material resources available.

The code itself can be copied infinitely, sure. Does that mean the time I spent in creating it is worthless? I do all the work, I put in the effort and investment, and you come along and say 'thanks, well take that!' and walk off. Wow, do I feel appreciated. Next time instead of writing code to the benefit of everyone, I guess I'll go build houses for a living..

If you don't agree, too bad. In my opinion, you're outnumbered by those who realize that sharing knowledge openly will maximize the good in our universe. Don't worry, the free sharing of information won't restrict your ability to discover and invent things, so unless you have a vested interest in controlling others for your own benefit, nothing will change to your disadvantage.

No, I think you're clearly in the minority. Sharing knowledge is helpful yes, but at the end of the day people need motivation to invest the time and effort required to create great software. How can I spend time creating something good if I'm worried about paying for my house? The answer is that I likely won't.

Oh, and if you think I'm making this up, you need to open your eyes. A very select few open source projects are successful; most end in failure though. THAT's the reality of the "community" you wish to build. People that no longer want to create software.

Alexa's tracking software is usually considered to be spyware. And don't tell me that the submitters to digg are journalists by nature when I find stories like this, this, and this as a few of the most popular stories in their respective categories. I go to digg to see a barrage of news stories and read the comments because I have nothing better to do sometimes. I go to slashdot to read (usually) insightful conversations. I've never seen a comment on /. that read 'LOL' or 'agreed'. And don't tell me their comment system is perfect if you can only have a conversation which goes one thread deep. It makes for some fairly confusing conversations and retards who don't know how to hit a 'reply' button. And, finally, I believe digg wasn't mentioned because digg is not currently paying their top submitters, and that is what this article is about.

Alexa's tracking software is usually considered to be spyware. And don't tell me that the submitters to digg are journalists by nature when I find stories like this, this, and this as a few of the most popular stories in their respective categories. I go to digg to see a barrage of news stories and read the comments because I have nothing better to do sometimes. I go to slashdot to read (usually) insightful conversations. I've never seen a comment on /. that read 'LOL' or 'agreed'. And don't tell me their comment system is perfect if you can only have a conversation which goes one thread deep. It makes for some fairly confusing conversations and retards who don't know how to hit a 'reply' button. And, finally, I believe digg wasn't mentioned because digg is not currently paying their top submitters, and that is what this article is about.

Alexa's tracking software is usually considered to be spyware. And don't tell me that the submitters to digg are journalists by nature when I find stories like this, this, and this as a few of the most popular stories in their respective categories. I go to digg to see a barrage of news stories and read the comments because I have nothing better to do sometimes. I go to slashdot to read (usually) insightful conversations. I've never seen a comment on /. that read 'LOL' or 'agreed'. And don't tell me their comment system is perfect if you can only have a conversation which goes one thread deep. It makes for some fairly confusing conversations and retards who don't know how to hit a 'reply' button. And, finally, I believe digg wasn't mentioned because digg is not currently paying their top submitters, and that is what this article is about.

When you're in the business of building $30 one-time-use camcorders, and you mistakenly leave your FTP site open with your client-side software on it, and some hacker figures out the cipher and the key length, and some other hacker takes that information and performs a clean-room reverse-engineering and writes a little distributed application that results in a third group of enterprising hackers brute-forcing the key within two days, and when you're gracious enough to post a polite request instead of a cease-and-desist, and the people who cracked your hardware are ethical enough to take down the offending code to help keep you in business... things work out pretty nicely. Even if there are a few mirrors of the missing piece of the puzzle floating around on the 'net.

When you're in the business of deciding whether the R-sociopaths or the D-sociopaths gets to govern a trillion-dollar economy, and the source code to the machines that control access to all that money, all that power, and all those guns happens to leak.... probably not so good.

Quick google search found this link with more info: http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/Largest_MMO_Heist_ Ever_EVE_Online_700bn_ISK_130_000_USD

We all know how well the Sharks with frickin' laser beams on their head project went at IBM's Boca Raton FL facility back in the 90's. Oh, the humanity! [Or would that be "Oh, the Carcharhinidae!"...]

And the proof of that would be multiple vehicle pile-ups. The ultimate going with the flow.

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Perpetual_Motion_ secrets_revealed_good_bye_gas_prices Look familiar???? Regardless of whether or not it works, I find it pretty pathetic that this company is stealing someone else's idea.

take all he has to say with a grain of salt.

does review not to help, but to further his own hidden ambitions,(free stuff job etc) vveeerrryyy low.

if was honest about his agenda then it be ok, but he is not, so it is not ok

http://digg.com/hardware/New_Directv_HD_DVR_finall y_released [digg.com]

take all he has to say with a grain of salt.

e does review not to help, nut to further hisown hidden ambitions, vveeerrryyy low.

http://digg.com/hardware/New_Directv_HD_DVR_finall y_released

seems good old england is awash with stupid laws, idiots in the media falling for the spin doctors, and lawyers wanting all the money.

Look what i found Blog takes on lawyers and 2 Scottish newspapers

better be an anonymous coward then, incase I get the knock too.

Here are some links to helpful sites relating to speeding cameras:
1. http://www.ukspeedcameras.co.uk/
2. http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200607/speed _cameras_do_not_make_driving_safer/
3. http://www.nationalsafetycameras.co.uk/nscl/camera s/cameras.html

This piece of FAQ pretty much states that speeding/traffic cameras record all the time 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: http://www.nationalsafetycameras.co.uk/nscl/q&a/q& a.html


The people are trying to fight back by destroying the speeding cameras. The Big Brother responds by installing additional security cameras to monitor on the speeding cameras. Reference: http://www.digg.com/security/Speed_cameras_acciden tally_get_destroyed...oops_

FUD, FUD, FUD. I'm not a Mac user and even I found it trivially easy to find info on this.

• http://forum.onmac.net/archive/index.php/t-875.htm l: "Just bought the game today, runs great! I've got it running in the higher range for graphics ect. also. MacBook Pro 2.16GHz 100GB 7200rpm 1GB RAM ATI x1600 Overclocked to 430/470"; "With the exception of any shadowing effects, all effects maxed, resolution set to 1280 720, x1600 OC'd to 470/470, Bloom Lighting I am able to acheive 40 FPS out in the world and 60 SOLID FPS when inside a dungeon or building."
• http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3149424
• http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=21912 4
• http://digg.com/gaming_news/Video_of_Elder_Scrolls _IV:_Oblivion_running_on_a_Macbook_Pro

Don't use Wikipedia links in slashdot articles. Why do such "intellegent nerds" use such unreliable sources that have been stampeeded by elephants. Slashdot has really hit the fan. Bring back the linux penguins, back when Mozilla was still 0.x, when Firefox was still a bird, when stretched anuses were the authoritative source.

2006 will be seen as the least nerdiest year of nerd history. Slashdot used to be a heaven for the nerdiest websites. Now it is just a scrape of google tech news combined with some vandalized wikipedia articles.

Digg had an article recently about how to perform a windows re-install without loss of information. This may be of use to you.

According to this, not only do you not need to train Vista's speech recognition engine (if you can call it that after this fiasco), but it is also very "easy" to navigate the OS even if you don't know commands like "show numbers" for selecting graphics on a web page in IE (because that's a "duh" command) and "close that."

here's the digg link i'm referring to: http://digg.com/programming/Lead_PHP_programmer_qu its

i'm not so sure it's a hack or prank. YMMV...

posted on http://digg.com/ (by sickaltima and achiIIe):

Jani Taskinen
http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=sniper

Something to note:
http://virtual.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intN WSAID=13246&group=General

"Finnish UN observer feared killed in Israeli airstrike" ...

from Freenode:
"_sniper_" is Jani Taskinen.

[_sniper_] hehehehe..
[_sniper_] all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it....Israel says the resolution was fair.
[_sniper_] hell yeah..
[_sniper_] NUKE ISRAEL!
[_sniper_] I'm so full of that fucking country..
[Shai-Tan] indeed
[_sniper_] Eye for an eye..I'll kill one Israel officer for one of ours, is that fair?
[_sniper_] I bet I'll be hanged for that.
[_sniper_] They kill one of my brother-in-arms-for-peace..I think I'm entitled to kill one of their nazis.
[_sniper_] Hezbollah, where can I enlist?
[_sniper_] FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you jews.
[_sniper_] I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it.
[_sniper_] Good bye.
[-- _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl

Jani is also Finnish BTW

He's pissed because one of the UN peacekeepers killed by the Israeli airstrike this week was Finnish. He's Finnish, and was supposedly a UN peacekeeper at one point. The projects he was working on were hosted by an Israeli company.

So he had an anti-semetic rant and quit.

digg link (which has a lot more insightful commentary, btw)

Well, it is one of the three great virtues of a programmer..