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"Already the site has better coverage of some areas than Wikipedia, leading to the question of whether more such small wikis should be created for certain verticals."

What? daria42, have you been under a rock? That question is already answered!

You might remember a Slashdot article quite a ways back that talked about Wikipedia deleting entire entries where no one could definitively argue if it was "notable" content. One of them was an article detailing the weapons technology used by the Space Marines in the Warhammer 40K universe. Well now you can just type "w40k wiki" into Google and the very first search result is Warhammer 40K Wiki. It not only solves the problem of proving notability, but you can be assured that everything of relevance to the W40K universe will not be rejected by Wikipedia's nazis and is available in a conveniently cross-referenced database maintained by people who cherish the material.

If you are the gaming type, you can put in a game's title and the word 'wiki' after it as the terms for a Google search. The more popular or more dedicated fanbase it has, the greater the probability a Wiki was started for it. Some great examples are the Fallout Wiki, Star Wars wiki aka the "Wookiepedia", Star Trek wiki, Final Fantasy wiki and the Tekken wiki.....which covers quite a few the passions of the Slashdot community.

Aussie Tech-Focused Wikipedia Launched

No, it wasn't. Some business in Australia unconnected with the Wikimedia crowd decided to put up their own wiki (running MediaWiki, like half of the other wikis out there). Good for them.

Why didn't Slashdot cover it when Penny Arcade got their own Wikipedia ? Oh wait, it was because that didn't happen, the same way Australia didn't get their own Wikipedia for technology.

Anyhow, if someone's going to give the Land Down Under their own honest-to-goodness Wikipedia wiki, I think it should be about ways to get rid of invasive species. Any Aussies here? You've got what: rabbits, poisonous toads, some kind of insect, and.... what else?

I saw the headline, and immediately thought that Google Earth had finally got around to photographing Falkirk

Well, the "article" is a bit of disappointment, however I've been in the same situation and here is how I approach the problem (way more music then will fit on my 8GB touch or smartphone): I have a linux server (Dell Studio Hybrid running Gentoo) that I always leave on which has a copy of my music repository. On it I run Music Player Daemon (MPD) with Icecast as one of the outputs. I connect to MPD via a simple web client (there are several: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients) from my touch, build my playlist, then point Safari to my Icecast server's IP/port which opens the media player and I can listen to MPD anywhere I have WiFi. I'm not sure what the minimum bandwidth required is, but even my smartphones (previously Samsung Saga on WM 6.1, now Droid Eris running 2.1) work with this system. For the record I used TCPMP on WM 6.1 (Windows Media Player mobile worked too, but that app is horrible) and now use I use A Online Radio for the Droid (oddly enough, the built in media player on Android doesn't do streams and it's touch to find an Android streaming client that let's you specify any address/port you want).

Let's see every Internet safety class I went to for my son says I have to monitor his Internet usage and then report on it.

When he acts up or misbehaves I have to let him know what he did and use empathy and consequences and how he can correct it to grow up and become a responsible adult that has good behavior, good actions, and makes good decisions and has a good system of morals and ethics. This is also how Critical Thinking works.

But many disagree on how Child Psychology should work and Maddox says don't be a p*ssy beat your kids if she followed the Maddox method he wouldn't even sue her for slander.

The kid is a retard, slander is the spoken word, libel is the written word, I worked for lawyers for four and a half years so I know stuff like that.

If he was my son and did crap like that on Facebook, I'd take away his Internet privileges until he learns his lesson about responsibility and making good decisions instead of bad ones. That would be a consequence of his bad decisions and bad behavior on Facebook and the rest of the Internet. But I'd bet I'd still get sued as the ACLU will claim I violated his rights to troll people on Facebook, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, The Daily Kos, 4Chan, Blogger, Current, Digg, Reddit, etc.

Oh... forgot to add my citation: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delphi

Great for making freeze rays. Bad things can happen if it is bounced.

Self-publishing for the PC is always an option.

But then PC gamers and console gamers tend to like different genres. For example, some games like Mario Party and Smash Bros. and Bomberman are best played on a large monitor with friends in the same room. With few exceptions, these tend not to get ported to PCs due to a perception that HTPCs don exits. So if my team has developed such a party-style PC game, should I try self-publishing it, or should we make and sell a PC game in a completely different genre in order to qualify for a console license?

Tried GMPC? Anyways, there are other MPD clients that you might like.

http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Music_Player_Client

You are wrong.The fact that it remains compatible with vanilla id Tech 3 means nothing. It comes with ioquake3, therefore it is an ioquake3 based game.

Wikipedia disagrees with you. Look at what is listed as the engine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openarena

The official OpenArena Wiki also disagrees with you and I quote:

OpenArena is a network enabled multiplayer first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine. It features many game types including the traditional deathmatch and sports a varied cast of sadistic characters. Due to violent and occasional racy content it is probably unsuitable for children under the age of 17.

openarena.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

This technology exists e.g. http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Text_Mode_Doom - would have been way cooler to actually implement the option permanently than just upload this Video

So what? http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Sealand

Ah, so that's the mystery behind Vault 108's "Gary" clones!!! Thanks!

No one can object that I might be Mandalorian?

So Nasa now has an Aegis cruiser on another world. The War of the Worlds can now begin. Clearly the stationary Spirit rover did not qualify for the upgrade.

They'd better be careful or we'll have to call in Doctor Freeman http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Resonance_Cascade

Yes, but he is still vulnerable to falling gold plaques, enraged catgirl goddesses of luck, and Chuck Norris.

Does repeating a link in the summary really count as informative?
I know this article is only tangentially about CHDK but I've been looking into CHDK lately for a project so I thought I'd share some useful links.

Supported Cameras

Note that a higher number doesn't mean it's a newer model. The A710 was released before the A590.
Canon PowerShot A series info

CHDK Howto

Info on how to make a port

Info on implementing PTP in CHDK
This is still relatively new but it could allow using a computer to remotely control the camera, which isn't doable on many Canon cameras with the stock firmware. I'd love to see this mature so I can do remote capture in Linux.

The page you linked to claims that CHDK is not available for the S90. How about the PowerShot SD880?

Check the sidebar: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

I'm anxiously awaiting the SD1200 port.

I use CHDK on my own Canon PowerShot. Good stuff.

I think China has been smallpoxing and is now transitioning from the civilization which everyone took pity on because they obviously weren't up to much -- to the new superpower which has all the other players go "WTF, how did that happen??"

Then, with railroads, they can move their units across the continent in a single turn, _and_ ramp up their production. And because their units can be wherever they need them, they'll need fewer of them, allowing them to ramp up their production even more (they do have one shield upkeep under Communism, after all), and, before you know it, they'll either have conquered the world or won the space race.

Yeah, I'll save my game and turn off the computer now.

Perhaps anytime it was driven more than 70 MPH with the headlights on and the seat warmer set to low?

Freeciv has had hexagonal tiles and maps (optional) for yonks as well. Still most people prefer to use overhead isometric.

I've recently discovered the Fall From Heaven 2 mod for Civ4. It's the most sophisticated and complete mod for Civ4 out there. It's a fantasy mod set in a deep and well fleshed out universe
It brings much more new concepts and content than both commercial extensions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword (although it requires these to work).

I expect it to keep me busy enough well past Civ V enters the discount bins. Having the mod ported to Civ V, however, will make me switch in an instant. Hint hint, Firaxis.

I don't think I've ever really understood what happened to strategy gaming on the PC around about the turn of the new Millennium.

I was (and still am) a huge fan and player of Heroes Of Might & Magic (I, II, and III), Master Of Orion (2), Total Annihilation and Civilization (I, II, Call To Power and Test Of Time) - likewise I've played and enjoyed PC FPS games from original Doom & Duke Nukem 3D through to STALKER, Half-Life 2 and Fallout 3 today.

Clearly, the FPS genre exists *BECAUSE* of good 3D graphics but who decided that they were needed for strategy games? Fortunately I totally avoided Master Of Orion III but at various points when they were cheap enough to justify rebuying some games I already had, I bought boxed compilations of all the HoMM and Civilization series, the C&C "10 Years" box set (that has everything up to C&C Generals) and Supreme Commander. In each and every case, the introduction of 3D in those games series has felt, to me, like a "dumbing down" of the games...

Firstly, let's look at HoMM and Civilization. These are both traditionally turn-based games where essentially you need to find and control resources at an "empire" level, as well as defeat enemy armies. They are not solely about combat, they are about using your armies to their best advantage - so what in hell does the game gain from a playability perspective by being able to zoom in to see each individual unit in the middle of a fight, i.e. Civilization III/IV and HoMM IV/V?

Secondly, Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander and C&C/Red Alert. There are RTS games but solely focused on small unit skirmishes and resource management, where development speed is core to winning each game... in which case, why in hell do I want (or even need) to mess around with zooming in and twiddling camera views? Just give me a single isometric view with sprite graphics...

These days, as half-Linux half-Windows user, I tend to play Freeciv quite a lot and IMHO it feels more of a logical progression from the original Civ I/II games.

I just wish that if games companies have finished with sprite-based RTS games, then they'd hand out the source code of the games on the Internet to let some good programmers loose on them. The great thing about the pre-3D games is they've low resource requirements and power consumption so great for laptops, netbooks & long flights.

Incidentally, there are a couple of exceptions to the rule - Stardock's Galactic Civilizations II and Sins Of A Solar Empire are fantastic strategy games with built-in 3D but presumably were designed from the ground up with 3D in mind... ...but otherwise 3D graphics have killed any idea of buying any new strategy games.

What! You saw Harold? Wow, Bob's grown!

If you want everyone to understand Moby Dick, you're going to have to make it a picture book. If you don't, you're an elitist.

I kinda think of starwars http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Scrubber_droid

Anyone else read that as Auror Attack?

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive

Yeah yeah, I played Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 and heard all about the Quarians and the Geth too. Not that ME was the first iteration of the concept. Yay, look at me, I'm posting about it to Slashdot to rehash old sci-fi ideas. Woohoo.

You remind me of people who type (not part of their sig) their username or their first name at the bottom of every post they write. As in, "why the hell does he bother doing that?"

Yeah yeah, I played Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 and heard all about the Quarians and the Geth too. Not that ME was the first iteration of the concept. Yay, look at me, I'm posting about it to Slashdot to rehash old sci-fi ideas. Woohoo.

You remind me of people who type (not part of their sig) their username or their first name at the bottom of every post they write. As in, "why the hell does he bother doing that?"

The article is a bit misleading when it says "Innocent Infringement Defense" as it is not a defense of the charge if infringement. It is actually an admission that infringement took place, but requests a lower penalty as the infringement was not deliberate or unforeseen. In this case, the defendant made the argument that the works in question didn't have any obvious copyright markings and she didn't know they were under copyright. (I suspect they asked if she had looked at the CD in the store and had seen the copyright notice on it, and she said yes).

A quick summary of the Innocent Infringement Response for those who actually click links. http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Innocent_infringement

Point noted although I'm sure people have already noticed that the internet hasn't buggy whipped either TV or radio. Also change even new change doesn't happen overnight.

Give it time, young Padawan.

Parent is not 'trolling'. GP is a Simpsons reference and parent is a Simpsons reply.

Much hardware design starts in simulation, which is essentially software.

As the OpenVirgle page says, most of that activity has moved to the "open manufacturing" idea, where there is more current activity towards that sort of "clanking" thing, but in a more general way:
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing

Artemis had always struck me as focusing on proprietary things, so is a non-starter in that sense (unless they have changed recently). I prefer what LUF is up to, like with what Eric Hunting is up to with "The Millennial Project 2":
http://tmp2.wikia.com/
http://theluf.blogspot.com/

And then there is the newer "OpenLuna":
http://www.openluna.org/

Twenty years before that I tried to do a PhD in this at Princeton (which fizzled painfully, after a similar attempt fizzled even more quickly essentially before it started at NCSU):
http://www.pdfernhout.net/princeton-graduate-school-plans.html
"I'm posting this stuff here for archival purposes and in case they give others some ideas or encouragement for their own efforts. It's part of my scanning my own old paper archives. This was my proposal for graduate studies at Princeton University twenty years ago (and in some ways includes a proposal for creating a mini-Google and a mini-World-Wide-Web. :-). ... The good news is that now, twenty years later, all or most of the hurdles have fallen that otherwise needed leaping before being able to comprehensively design self-replicating space habitats, and all the computer and informational resources I thought I needed then are now available for cheap or free. For example, for only a few thousand dollars, I have the equivalent of an early 1990s supercomputer in my office with terabytes of storage and a high speed color scanner and a network connection and access to Google and Wikipedia and so on. So, what I outlined in the 20th century is more and more doable in the 21st century for less and less cost. So, item 13 (the major goal) is now approachable without needing to do much on the other prerequisite items listed. ..."

And then I worked toward a non-profit and then a company that both also fizzled:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/sunrise-sustainable-technology-ventures.html

I did get a masters as a consolation prize from an Ecology and Evolution PhD program when later my PhD studies towards this end at SUNY SB also fizzled...

Anyway, I tried to get NASA interested in this stuff over a decade ago but I was not successful; my attempt there:
"Open Source Community on Manufacturing Knowledge"
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/prototype.htm

This is not to blame NASA entirely, other than being kind of bureaucratic like most government agencies, and I'm not that great a promoter. As is pointed out in many places, including by someone here:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/free_matter_economy?page=0%2C1
the general problem with grants and things is that almost invariably the people best at getting grants are often the people least likely to do much innovative stuff with the money. :-) That is, grant getting skills and product creation skills are rarely found in the same person, or even in the same organization. And in this case of OSCOMAK, it also went against the very idea of tight managerial control that is a hallmark of NASA. But, could I ha

I learned this four years ago on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

Those T.A.R.U. guys are some smart coppers.

Benson and Stabler know where every perv in New York is located.

We are slowly getting there: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Periodic_table

Gah, twenty year flashback to Wasteland!

Bungie is known for having written a rich and detailed backstory, and having a very detailed 'bible' for Halo. Eric Nylund was not coming up with things at the behest of Microsoft. I'm sure he gets to invent minor stuff what needs inventing, but somehow I doubt 'the origin of the Spartans' would fall into that.

Action Comics #0, Zero Hour event tie-in from 1994.

To add to this - The java client on the site is shitty - use the one from Pachos.

That being said - It is beta. You have to click constantly to move (there's no waypoint finding), but building and crafting on it is great. The community is awesome too - we started playing with a friend and some nice guy who owned an awesome farm picked us up there and said we can have his food and other items whenever we want to. We started building our own farm next to his. Friend already went to sleep but I continued some. Later I wandered to travel the lakes and rivers with my boat to look for grapes so I could make wine - Stopped at some guys grape farm and went there to steal some, but I had to break his wall first which takes a lot of time. But I was desperate as it was the only place I could get grape seeds from. Suddenly he came with his boat and I had to flee fast.

Here's a Wiki and some guides and info for the game.

And if you go stealing or pillaging other peoples places, remember that it's permadeath and theres also boars around :)

we get dread 100,000 strong botnet krakens which rise to the surface and drag sites under with all hands lost.

Ah, yes. Good ole' Mustakrakish. http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki/Mustakrakish

Or it could be the fact that pre-release infringement is a felony in the US, and if it isn't here(I don't actually know) the US and Australia do have an extradition agreement. It's true they might not have let him get extradited over this kind of offense, but I wouldn't bet on them stepping in and using political capital to save this guys sorry ass.

Personally if I were offered a choice to pay 1.5 million(which I'll probably avoid by going bankrupt) or serve jail time in a foreign country. Especially when I know I'm guilty of the crime and I'm 24 years old and so don't get to pull childish stupidity as a mitigating defense with the judge, I'd take it. Especially when my only defense was a bullshit "I wanted to prove I'd gotten it".

The guy was an idiot, we all know by now that while your odds of getting caught distributing pirated software is fairly low, that the content companies come down on pre-release like a tonne of bricks. He did something stupid, he didn't cover his tracks very well, and he's offered himself up for some serious pain as a consequence. Nintendo didn't need to offer him a deal to become the poster boy, they could have made his life a hell of a lot more miserable than 1.5 million.

I won't lie, the first thing I thought of when I read 'Phobos' was the classic game 'Doom', which takes place on Phobos I believe...

My reaction was to your post was: Phobos is way to small to have enough gravity. Turns out Doom was on Phobos despite how silly the idea is.

cube was indeed a fantastic movie.. it was based on a film from the 60's by , of all people, Jim Hensen of muppets fame.

see linky here

while not as gruesome as the remake still quite a decent movie in it's own right

Or, if you were an early mac gamer and weren't into Doom, it's because it's the wrong moon. The UESC Marathon was made out of -demios-, not Phobos.

Could it be that Futurama is becoming reality? It's only a matter of evolutionary time before that chemical blob morphs into Yivo, and not only becomes a meteor-dwelling overlord, but our planet-sized, tentacled, omnipotent alien overlord that controls us all!

That black hole in the video looks almost exactly like Giedi Prime from Dune...