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  1. PHPGedView on Best Open Source Genealogy Software? · · Score: 1

    I've been using PHPGedView for years. Slick interface. GEDCOM export. Unfortunately, the script keeps getting flagged as a trojan.

  2. A YEAR AGO on Prices Slashed For Nook, Kindle E-Readers · · Score: 1

    Those prices were from over a year ago. They should be a fraction of that price now.

  3. Software Companies Should... on US Sues Oracle Over Alleged Overcharging · · Score: 1

    Be required to store all license info and be audited by any customers for the licenses they own. And provide free downloads for any software they own.

  4. Not "Fraud" on The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fraud would be if the candidate or someone on their behalf tampered with the results or the machines to get them elected. If the voting machines are defective and produce a illegitimate outcome then it's something else. Not to mention beating 1 in 10 odds isn't that suspicious.

  5. Beautiful Launch - pics and video on SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket · · Score: 1

    I work on the Cape. Here are some pics my friend took. Here. Here is my crappy iPhone video: here (launch starts around 2:40).

  6. CS5: Revolutionary Improvements on Review of Adobe Creative Suite 5 · · Score: 1

    I've beet a tester since CS3 and a user since CS1. If you haven't used their applications in a while the biggest improvements you'll see are the tabbed interface, more uniform interface across application, cross-application work-flows, better responsiveness, 64bit support, tons of support for content publishing across all sorts of mediums with a particular focus on mobile and web, and GPU acceleration. Premiere, After Effects and InDesign have been improved by leaps and bounds. Streamline is now a feature of Illustrator (Live Trace). OnLocation was rewritten from the ground up so the interface is nicer but many features have not been rewritten (but there is heavy development). Other than Flash, acquired Macromedia applications (Fireworks, Dreamweaver, etc) seem to be evolving slower. Tons of CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY COOL new features like content aware photo fill, content aware resizing and automatic rotoscoping edge detection.

  7. It Must Be.... on Journalists' Yahoo E-Mail Accounts Compromised In China · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The evil US government at work, again!

  8. Thumbrule on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    Look at past performance, adjust for scope of the job, triple it and add 30%. We programmers are always too optimistic. It's always the unpredictable 20% that takes 80% of the time.

  9. Bad Move on Google To Challenge Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    Most corporations block webmail(security, trojans, viruses, etc) but many are now allowing access to social network sites. Most folks visit social networking sites during the workday. So a webmail social networking app is a non-starter.

  10. Finally on GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Like a lot of novice users I gave GIMP a shot. Loved the plugin system and spent many an hour trying to get older plugins working and tweaking other plugins to do some neat effects. But in the end the UI made it difficult and confusing to use. For YEARS the internal arguments over the UI made it seem unlikely something like single window mode would reach maturity (and become usable on Windows). Kudos to the developers. I'll give it another shot.

  11. Evolve or Die on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    The English language must continue to evolve, or fork or the language will be supplanted by another.

  12. Re:can't say i'm surprised on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    Unless you count that incident as a response to the Chinese forcing our EP-3 to land on
    Chinese territory then reverse engineering all our equipment.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1769642.stm

  13. ClueLess on Analyst, 15, Creates Storm After Trashing Twitter · · Score: 1

    Twitter barely has a profile feature. Sounds more like the kid was clueless about Twitter.

    I do agree about the exodus from mainstream media. I opened a coffee shop and have discovered the hard way how litigious copyright companies like ASCAP and BMI are strangling the music industry for amateurs. Few can afford to fork over thousands a year for the privilege of having Open Mic nights. So now I wholeheartedly support the Creative Commons music movement: www.jamendo.com

  14. Two Movies in One (or two half-movies?) on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    This isn't one movie, it's two distinct movies.

    1) A Origins movie where Spock plays the antagonist against Kirk's "rebel without a cause". The Kobayashi Maru
      scene was way underplayed. They should have devoted more time to a Kirk/Spock rivalry. Developed more this would have been a killer movie by itself. The Pike tie in is going to be cool when I get to that episode in the original Trek series (stupid DVDs are in original air order instead of stardate order)

    2) A alternate universe timeline piece of crap with a throw-away Romulan bad guy. I'll give them creds for developing a motivation for the Romulan antagonist but the whole thing is just too contrived.

  15. For $300, no thanks on Can the New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Give me a reader for $80 and maybe. $300? Screw that.

  16. Proof of Ignorance on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ask yourself why the press let this crap slide during the election. Obama and his surrogates made lots of dumbass assertions that went uncalled because the press had a lovefest.

  17. The Problem... on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem might be that we have developed a work-life that is inherently incompatible with a decent home life. Maybe women just make a rational choice on different priorities. Not far from the article's suggestion but I'd go further and recommend changing the workplace for everyone.

  18. Practically a Slashdot Hero on Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China · · Score: 1

    I'm sure on this site he's considered a hero.

  19. Why in a UK News Site on Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is this not a big enough story for US news companies to cover?

  20. Re:It's not a game.... on Review: Spore · · Score: 1

    Sounds like life in the corporate world.

  21. Evil? on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Sounds a little evil to me. Hope they fix it.

  22. Steps on Java, Where To Start? · · Score: 1

    1) Download and Install JDeveloper

    http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html

    2) Think of a project to code. For instance, write a program to snag web pages and store them in a database.

    3)Code

    4) Read "Thinking in Java"

  23. It's Going to Be OK! on Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans · · Score: -1, Troll

    I heard Obama blessed the levies with this aura or strength.

  24. I'm running for Congress on How Can Nerds Make a Difference In November? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll be on the ballot for the US House of Representatives for Florida's 15th Congressional district.

    http://lowing08.com/

  25. BS on Massachusetts Sues to Halt Defcon Subway Hacking Talk · · Score: 1

    Soviets would have just hauled your ass off to Siberia. Get a grip.