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Would you like to see something else they shut down last year?
They even gave themselves an award for using the weight of the mass media against us.
http://shortyawards.com/1st-so...
However, even though they shut us down, we managed to survive thanks to technologies like ZeroNet and IPFS.
You can download it here: https://tiny.cc/echoes

Go to https://tiny.cc/aegisvoat for a script which disables all of Microsoft's spying and unwanted "upgrades."

Can also be reached through https://tiny.cc/aegisvoat.

Auto-complete is one of Google feature and its help its user by giving the ideas.Well everything has advantage and disadvantage.For Google $75k is not a big amount.. http://tiny.cc/615arw

By stop playing such games i don't think so it will effect pakistan bad image. Best approach according to me is Do live and let us live....... http://tiny.cc/615arw

The Swartz case has been a Hot topic over internet these days.Some say's he is right and some says wrong.But i think we should leave all this on law and obey its order...... http://tiny.cc/qbgbrw

I think this is not good news for developer and users who use open source Red Hat.Some people don't know how to use this latest DB because MySQL is mostly use as DB in all leading Programming language..... http://tiny.cc/qbgbrw

I don't think its secure as you say there are numerous problems in handling encryption, an XSS flaw and users can't change their passwords.No body can't take risk.... http://tiny.cc/qbgbrw

Is Graph Search useful for users or danger for user privacy.But one thing is sure it is good for promoting your brand..... http://tiny.cc/615arw

CES 2013 HTC Launch M7 Leaked it is a latest smartphone 2GB RAM, Android Jelly Bean, HTC Sense 5.0, 4.7-inch SoLux 1080p display with optical lamination, 32GB internal storage.....

In CES 2013 We found Hands-on: NVIDIA Project Shield Handheld Gaming System. The latest and Upgraded technology.

http://tiny.cc/vl9qhw

Why the sudden coordinated campaign for Goatse?

Is someone making money off this?

Acandemic note: The site of choice used to be the French one - now it's the Russian one.

My current list of Russian Goatse links:

http://tinyurl.com/63avlna
http://tiny.cc/jg2wh
http://goo.gl/zjJOI
http://bologgingaway.blog.com/2011/03/29/post/

How many slashdotters will click this link

However, I have seen a bash script that lets you play Tetris in it. Here is a site with large collection of such scripts.

Now, if you didn't hear about, they want to remove close buttons from applications.
They force on you to suspend your system on lid close,
They decide that you don't need toolbar applets, like cpu monitor.

I still use gnome, but my patience is almost broken.

Yesterday, for example I installed ADW home screen for my android phone, and boy did I have fun with it, because it has so
many settings.

(Note that by default, it was quite sucky, but with customization, it became just perfect).
Android just follows Gnome policy of 'No settings, we know whats good for you', thus I am giving that example.

I am really tired of lack of settings in Gnome, because that myth that it confuses novices is just a joke.
Novices can just not change the defaults, and devs are free to set defaults as they wish, and thus we get a gnome equivalent, but one that fits everybody, not
just a bunch of devs that think that they know everything.


So, next update, I am switching to KDE, I have had enough.

If all hacker did was to DoS a site, the damage is pretty much zero. Its like a riot that blocks a street for 1/2 of a hour. However, in more severe cases, it should be punished, but not too harash. For example getting 15 years in prison for hacking a site, it just too much!

The Act (relevant part) makes it mandatory to replace the ID card every 3 years. If you you don't you face large fine. I think that is just another money making machine for the Government.

One resident in Texas was actually arrested and held for a week for a suspicion of being a terrorist, because he didn't have an ID card. (He didn't have a car and didn't apply for ID card, because these aren't mandatory).

Oh, how many protests have you organized?

I used to have a web site exposing Disney's lobbying for copyright term extension and anticircumvention legislation, and I promoted it in my signature on a few forums where I was active.

How many letter campaigns have you participated in?

I've participated in several action.eff.org campaigns.

How many RIAA/MPAA products are you showing interest in by either purchasing or pirating?

I follow freeganism with the products of several MAFIAA companies: I'll consume it only if it's already paid for.

(and relatively standalone for the ones I actually enjoyed, ie the original Star Wars and The Matrix - I found the LOTR books and movies below average for entertainment value)

Were the two parts of Kill Bill standalone enough? Or, like me, did you avoid them on Buena Vista freegan principles?

I don't watch TV series when they're on TV

So I guess you're not into sports either. For example, one can't buy an NFL team's regular season and playoffs on DVD and cram before the Super Bowl.

If I hadn't already read all the Harry Potter books I probably would wait until both halves of the last movie are out before watching the first.

And then you get into companies like Disney who stop selling copies of the old movies before the sequel hits theaters.

one Jar is enough for anyone. Do you think anyone could handle Jar Jar or Jar Jar Jar?

@oldhack it was already on #slashdot http://tiny.cc/qpacj

Cite your sources. http://tiny.cc/5ipel says that although the middle aged demographic is growing most rapidly, the 0-24 bracket is by no means shrinking. Having said that, parent's parent is certainly correct in saying that facebook is the place that "old people" use.

Well Captain Donut Hole, I'm going to go out on a wild and wacky limb here with a guess that by "beginning" he means Android's inception, which took place prior to Google acquiring it. And since that day, up until Eric "the snake" Schmidt was blessed with his great idea to shoehorn Android behind a touchscreen, the form factor for which Android was designed was definitely NOT a touchscreen. Here's the original turd:http://tiny.cc/2041u And their long-term strategy:http://tiny.cc/paid_search_is_all_we_do So far as iOs is concerned, Apple had conceived and was planning the iPad BEFORE the iPhone became an idea. So by saying that iOs was designed for a tablet form factor is DEAD ON.http://tiny.cc/ynsy3 Dumb-dumbs should never even pretend to be smartasses.

Well Captain Donut Hole, I'm going to go out on a wild and wacky limb here with a guess that by "beginning" he means Android's inception, which took place prior to Google acquiring it. And since that day, up until Eric "the snake" Schmidt was blessed with his great idea to shoehorn Android behind a touchscreen, the form factor for which Android was designed was definitely NOT a touchscreen. Here's the original turd:http://tiny.cc/2041u And their long-term strategy:http://tiny.cc/paid_search_is_all_we_do So far as iOs is concerned, Apple had conceived and was planning the iPad BEFORE the iPhone became an idea. So by saying that iOs was designed for a tablet form factor is DEAD ON.http://tiny.cc/ynsy3 Dumb-dumbs should never even pretend to be smartasses.

Well Captain Donut Hole, I'm going to go out on a wild and wacky limb here with a guess that by "beginning" he means Android's inception, which took place prior to Google acquiring it. And since that day, up until Eric "the snake" Schmidt was blessed with his great idea to shoehorn Android behind a touchscreen, the form factor for which Android was designed was definitely NOT a touchscreen. Here's the original turd:http://tiny.cc/2041u And their long-term strategy:http://tiny.cc/paid_search_is_all_we_do So far as iOs is concerned, Apple had conceived and was planning the iPad BEFORE the iPhone became an idea. So by saying that iOs was designed for a tablet form factor is DEAD ON.http://tiny.cc/ynsy3 Dumb-dumbs should never even pretend to be smartasses.

I was able to locate a copy of the factory default sound played for the Prius speakers to make a more noticable engine sound.

http://tiny.cc/kdrv9

When we talk about getting in the zone, I think there are two types of problems that need to be considered. First, there is the abstract, technical, or otherwise difficult problem that can only be solved with a short-term burst of extreme concentration and mental effort. Then there is the type of problem that requires a great deal of familiarity with disparate variables, classes, objects, or other pieces to a puzzle. When these pieces are all loaded into your personal RAM, a solution becomes tractable, but which if you try to look at the issues piecemeal, some here and some tomorrow, you may not be able to solve. These generally take a large chunk of devoted time in a single sitting. Both of these problems are mentally taxing.

I've found in my computing/coding/developing that these periods of solid work can really zap my energy, not because they're not interesting or because I'm not up to the task, but occasionally it just requires a great deal of mental effort. Even when a problem is technically simple, it can require much mental energy, as if I were just multiplying large numbers in my head--the process is known to a first grade pupil, but it still takes a special effort to actually do it.

So, I think I know how you feel about programming, but I'm sorry I can't answer your question about whether it's okay to surf the web and etc while you're on the clock. On the one hand, it doesn't appear to be fair to the employer, and on the other hand it appears to be a nice mindless respite required for you to relax so you can get back to your work refreshed and ready for another heave-ho. An employer might say something like, well, how about if you work on less intense programming for your breaks -- clean up a script, or change the appearance of one thing or another, type up a report, answer some email, or find something mindless which contributes to the company/community.

I think there has been some hyperbole here, saying if you can do in 1 hour what others do in 8, then why not--I see what they mean. You seem pretty reasonable, so I think you're handling it alright. Your maximum efficiency level should be a high priority for you, but another should be how you are perceived by your managers and coworkers, so keep this in mind as well, since it may affect your pay or your career. Of course, your sanity is also important, so try to hang on to that. I think you should try reading Tracy Kidder's book "Soul of a New Machine." http://tiny.cc/bv3sf It's the story of the workers in a company that designed and built a new 32-bit computer in one year in the late 70's. Their lives were totally committed to cranking this out, and they did it, but some of them cracked. Oh, and it's extremely well-written. (Note: no conflict of interest here, except that I liked this and another of his books, "Mountains Beyond Mountains.")

RTFact is based on a research paper from the University of Saarland. The paper describes the implementation of a generic real time ray tracing framework with source code in C++. The goal or objective is an interactive real-time ray tracer.

From the different implementations I researched (Manta from MIT, OpenRT, Arauna, RTSL, plus many more), RTFact is by far the most legitimate implementation. There are a million papers out there on interactive ray tracing, but only a few really take into consideration some of the major problems. I played around with OpenRT, but the amount of artifacts and aliasing really take away from the interactive experience. I have not played around with it recently, so maybe they now have an improved adaptive anti-aliasing solution, so my comments may be outdated.

The base code for RTFact is supposed go open source, but I have been waiting around for a long time without even a remote tidbit of information until this post. They actually even went backwards as they removed the paper from public distribution. Whenever it does go open source, it will be posted here.
http://www.rtfact.org/

Now the generic ray tracing api/framework is RTFact, but from the sounds of the article posted above, they are actually integrating the scene graph RTSG into WebKit, which has also been developed by the university of Saarland. This is only speculation and I could be completely wrong.

If you want some info on RTFact, check out:
http://tiny.cc/gHMrW

For info on RTSG, check out:
http://tiny.cc/3ezO8

If you want the original paper, the only link I could find from Google seems to be broken, but it may be due to the servers being overloaded by downloads after the announcement. I have the paper somewhere here on one of my drives, but it would take me a while to find, so if you want me to spend the time looking for it, you would need to give me some incentive by proving to me that you are in fact doing research.

In regards to your question, without a doubt, rasterization will eventually be replaced by ray tracing. Just look at Pixars evolution into photorealism. When the frame rates improve with better hardware for the general public, the framework will begin to be used in game engines, and not just scene graphs. The reasoning is aesthetic as much as it is technical. Ray tracing is truer to the physics of light than rasterization, so even though you can "fake" effects, the graphics will always be more appealing being rendered backwards than forwards. I do numerical simulation (with a background in CS from UW, where my heavy graphics knowledge comes from, plus a few years in real-time simulaton), and the true physics of the problem always gives a better solution than assumptions, approximations, correlations, and correction factors. It is a comment that my prof continually reiterates. For example, caustics will never look as good rastered as they do ray traced, since the ray tracer will map the full motion of the photons.

I could go on for hours, but I will leave it at this....

RTFact is based on a research paper from the University of Saarland. The paper describes the implementation of a generic real time ray tracing framework with source code in C++. The goal or objective is an interactive real-time ray tracer.

From the different implementations I researched (Manta from MIT, OpenRT, Arauna, RTSL, plus many more), RTFact is by far the most legitimate implementation. There are a million papers out there on interactive ray tracing, but only a few really take into consideration some of the major problems. I played around with OpenRT, but the amount of artifacts and aliasing really take away from the interactive experience. I have not played around with it recently, so maybe they now have an improved adaptive anti-aliasing solution, so my comments may be outdated.

The base code for RTFact is supposed go open source, but I have been waiting around for a long time without even a remote tidbit of information until this post. They actually even went backwards as they removed the paper from public distribution. Whenever it does go open source, it will be posted here.
http://www.rtfact.org/

Now the generic ray tracing api/framework is RTFact, but from the sounds of the article posted above, they are actually integrating the scene graph RTSG into WebKit, which has also been developed by the university of Saarland. This is only speculation and I could be completely wrong.

If you want some info on RTFact, check out:
http://tiny.cc/gHMrW

For info on RTSG, check out:
http://tiny.cc/3ezO8

If you want the original paper, the only link I could find from Google seems to be broken, but it may be due to the servers being overloaded by downloads after the announcement. I have the paper somewhere here on one of my drives, but it would take me a while to find, so if you want me to spend the time looking for it, you would need to give me some incentive by proving to me that you are in fact doing research.

In regards to your question, without a doubt, rasterization will eventually be replaced by ray tracing. Just look at Pixars evolution into photorealism. When the frame rates improve with better hardware for the general public, the framework will begin to be used in game engines, and not just scene graphs. The reasoning is aesthetic as much as it is technical. Ray tracing is truer to the physics of light than rasterization, so even though you can "fake" effects, the graphics will always be more appealing being rendered backwards than forwards. I do numerical simulation (with a background in CS from UW, where my heavy graphics knowledge comes from, plus a few years in real-time simulaton), and the true physics of the problem always gives a better solution than assumptions, approximations, correlations, and correction factors. It is a comment that my prof continually reiterates. For example, caustics will never look as good rastered as they do ray traced, since the ray tracer will map the full motion of the photons.

I could go on for hours, but I will leave it at this....

No way dude, that's a fake.... the REAL one is downtown Detroit right across the street from the Joe Lewis fist & a block or so from the Windsor tunnel.

http://tiny.cc/8mI9l

I mean, NOBODY'S gonna look for the Stargate in downtown Detroit. And if the aliens come through, they'll see Detroit & leave post haste.

Perfect plan.

You think that's bad? Take a look at the Linux 2012 issue.

That is so cool - followed your link to Gold Base then switched to Google street view. At the corner of their property I saw a small compound with a cement block building - surrounded by a barbed-wire fence facing inward!

That.... is pretty damning tbh.

That is so cool - followed your link to Gold Base then switched to Google street view. At the corner of their property I saw a small compound with a cement block building - surrounded by a barbed-wire fence facing inward!

Concealing links is a common use.

Which links are more likely to be clicked by the people who might be offended/get in trouble by viewing it:

http://teensex.com/video/Hardcore-Fucking-13300.html
http://tiny.cc/FJU5j

Sorry but Nehalem has more than twice the performance per socket than Power6, and it is much cheaper.

http://tiny.cc/nuabU

http://tiny.cc/sQ1fT

  When building processors, you tend to be around 300mm2 in size, nomather what fab you are in, becouse is the size that gets you the best relationship between yield in 300mm waffer and cost to package. Depending on the fab you get more or less transistor. Is up to each vendor to create as much or as little cores, threads, etc. as he wants.

  A extreme version of this is Sun T2 processor, with 8 cores, that is faster than Power6 per socket but slower than Nehalem.

http://tiny.cc/Tm9r2

Sorry but Nehalem has more than twice the performance per socket than Power6, and it is much cheaper.

http://tiny.cc/nuabU

http://tiny.cc/sQ1fT

  When building processors, you tend to be around 300mm2 in size, nomather what fab you are in, becouse is the size that gets you the best relationship between yield in 300mm waffer and cost to package. Depending on the fab you get more or less transistor. Is up to each vendor to create as much or as little cores, threads, etc. as he wants.

  A extreme version of this is Sun T2 processor, with 8 cores, that is faster than Power6 per socket but slower than Nehalem.

http://tiny.cc/Tm9r2

Sorry but Nehalem has more than twice the performance per socket than Power6, and it is much cheaper.

http://tiny.cc/nuabU

http://tiny.cc/sQ1fT

  When building processors, you tend to be around 300mm2 in size, nomather what fab you are in, becouse is the size that gets you the best relationship between yield in 300mm waffer and cost to package. Depending on the fab you get more or less transistor. Is up to each vendor to create as much or as little cores, threads, etc. as he wants.

  A extreme version of this is Sun T2 processor, with 8 cores, that is faster than Power6 per socket but slower than Nehalem.

http://tiny.cc/Tm9r2

Because they'll stop working if they can't. And yes, there are printers that need to access the network. Home printers tend to pretty simple-minded (though many now have their own network addresses) but office printers often double as fax machines and scanners -- which means they have to look up the name of a mail server to forward those. And the mail server might well be named .

(Oops, Slashdot still barfs on non-Latin characters. Here's the cute Chinese name I came up with: http://tiny.cc/MUhUL )

Elevators too. Some of these are pretty smart and probably have the ability to report malfunctions, usage patterns, etc.

I think the best thing was seeing it at Chillis. I don't think it's a joke: http://tiny.cc/CXTOa

When I use tinyurl and such I kind of can know that all the destination urls wont be open data to everyone. Yeah, I know you shouldn't paste personals url via other sites, but people still do. Some privacy, please?

Go read Tiny URL's privacy policy. Go ahead, I'll still be here when you get back.

Read it? Great! Now show me where it said they won't display a list of links to anyone who asks.

Think about this for a minute. What information could anyone glean from knowing that a particular URL has been mapped, especially since you don't have to use an account to create the shortened URL so there's no way of showing who originally created it? Also, given that a given shortened URL is trivially resolvable to the original address, what privacy did you incorrectly think it was granting you?

"Instant AND not necessarily accurate. A two-for-one!"
Funny but I don't think I have ever found a news service that is perfectly accurate. Here is a correction that the New York Times published after only a few decades. http://tiny.cc/A4LxJ
And how many errors have we had on Slashdot?
CNN?
NPR?
BBC?
CBS?
ABC?
NBC?
Exactly which of these have never published something that was less than accurate?
I get updates from NASA, Engadget, and a few friends. Many people actually find it useful.
The correct way use Twitter is when you see some news flash up on it you then start checking the News sites. Think of Twitter as an alert system. When you get a blip you go and check it out. Also find some good sources to follow and you may find it very useful.
BTW even the I am eating dinner at X posts can be of use. When friends of mine eat at someplace I want to try and they post it then I can DM them and ask if it is worth trying myself.
The anti twitter people remind me of the people that just didn't understand why you would want that internet thing.
Yes twitter may end up as a flash in the pan but so far it has been useful for some people.

My partners and I had the #1 Music app in Japan for several weeks last month (Boombox - http://tiny.cc/Lrd5g), so they are definitely interested in the iPhone. Just because they don't buy the phone in the same numbers as in the US doesn't mean they hate it. It seems like it's doing fairly well over there.

If you like that clock you might also like antique pendulum wall clocks. I got into them a few years ago. There is just something about full mechanical clocks driven by weights. Ebay is a good starting place, something like these: http://tiny.cc/V5orM http://tiny.cc/vRuF7 http://tiny.cc/tFp5h

If you like that clock you might also like antique pendulum wall clocks. I got into them a few years ago. There is just something about full mechanical clocks driven by weights. Ebay is a good starting place, something like these: http://tiny.cc/V5orM http://tiny.cc/vRuF7 http://tiny.cc/tFp5h

If you like that clock you might also like antique pendulum wall clocks. I got into them a few years ago. There is just something about full mechanical clocks driven by weights. Ebay is a good starting place, something like these: http://tiny.cc/V5orM http://tiny.cc/vRuF7 http://tiny.cc/tFp5h

Regardless, here is something useful you can do with open source java

Regardless, here is something useful you can do with open source java

Interesting that you should ask for references; nearly all of the "insights" from this article are actually lifted from How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker . . . without credit. http://www.tiny.cc/pinker