They have a nicely written, in-depth piece on AOL's new head master, Dick Parsons, as he deals with the trials and tribulations of running such a large, well-known company as AOL.
Christ, you've posted every single story that's on the front page right now. You've been incessantly surfing through the queue submissions since 1pm yesterday.
Take a break man -- you deserve it!;-)
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Hear me out, this isn't some troll or whatever. Sure, I appreciate wireless and all that jazz, but the IEEE takes advantage of its monopoly on electrical and computer standards.
Back when I was an undergrad (U of Co, BSEE) but had completed a design of a new Radio transposer technology which I had done for an obscure (then not NOW!) broadcast manufacturer. I wrote and submitted a paper to the IEEE Broadcast Society detailing the new approaches in transposer design including some (such as phase locked upconversion) which have since been patented and used widely in the field.
To my surprise my paper was accepted for presentation to the annual Symposium held in Wash. DC. However when I arrived for the symposium I discovered that my presentation was cancelled and replaced with some highly credentialled author who was to talk about the "social impact" of the media. Confronting the review commitee about this I was that there were to many(!) hard technical papers and that this new author can give us a perspective from outside our field. Besides, they said, he is a distinguished professor from Harvard (or Yale, I forgot) and you are just a college student.
I hung around to see what this new paper was about. Unfortunately for the author, he passed out his paper to the audience prior to his presentation. Apparently he had only submitted an abstract which was full of the obfuscating politically correct terminology of the time. Well it turns out this guy was some right-wing kook who was blaming the jews in the media etc. Of course all his "credentials" were fake and nobody checked up on them.
The sponsors immediately cancelled his presentation and asked me to present my paper. You can imagine what my response was. Needless to say I resigned my membership in the IEEE.
The OpenBSD team is a really great group of hard-working coders that don't stop with writing just average code.
This latest security measure goes to show why they're still #1 when it comes to really closing up a machine's holes to prevent abuse and unwanted infiltration into a system.
Just noticed the new "hack"
on
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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has always said that he refused to adopt a better moderation system, such as the one used at Kuro5hin, because it "wouldn't scale".
But then they implement this new system, which I'm sure takes up more CPU time than Kuro5hin's simple averaging scheme for comment score calculations.
Anyone else think this seems a bit hypocritical? Just give every member the right to vote on a scale from 1-5 for each comment, and then average the score. It'd make for a lot less -1, Interesting and 5, Troll comments -- that's for sure.
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Every radio station in every city that's making any money is probably 9 times out of 10 part of ClearChannel's vast network (dare I say monopoly) of radio stations across the United States.
The same Top 40 songs are heard day in and day out in every city. Nothing changes. Only artists with big media contracts (Sony, Columbia, etc.) can afford to buy air time.
I often wonder why there's been little innovation on the radio. Bands like Radiohead come along, but I've probably only heard one song of theirs on the radio, and that was once or twice even.
Let the little guys get some airtime. Fight this consolidation. I urge you to contact your representatives in government.
I work in the classroom support field of a major private high school in the US.
We have since stopped using Debian since back at the beginning of the school year (September 2002). Between useless email fights like this one, to other arguments that were show-stopping and delayed new releases, I grew fed up.
I was glad to turn our school's IT system nearly 100% to Linux, but I was almost as glad to switch everything to a package-based, Gentoo Linux flavor.
The OS of Linux is great, but as for the extra flamebait cruft you see on the Debian list, that I can do without.
You state that If I ever meet you on the street I'll kick your ass so hard you'll look like a pile of cherry cobbler run through the blender, but then conclude your brief essay with a mention of dining out with my mother, father, and sister while I sit at home in the basement with [my] Star Wars dolls, internet porn, and [my]friends and foes list.
I'm curious as to how I could continue browsing Slashdot after you kill me. I have a life philosophy of monism, which, unless it's wrong, would prohibit the continued existence of my soul after my body dies.
... but the Zoo relationship system in the Slash Code has now been fully updated. The tables in the Slashdot 2.2.x database have been rebuilt, and thus you can now once again view Friend/Foe relationship data for each registered member.
Just figured I'd let you all know since there's no Site Announcement capabilities in Slash Code.
No way in hell would I spend two or three days' worth of my salary on a little device that I'd probably either lose, step on by mistake, drop by mistake, or have stolen from me.
But then again, I'm one of those guys who spends five bucks on a pair of pharmacy glasses instead of $250 at LensCrafters, so YMMV;-)
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You can get an entire season for $50 used. How many times can you watch the same cliched Keanu Reeves "sci-fi" adventure flick?
... is that it's the week of the 17th anniversary of the horrific Challenger disaster.
Coincidence?
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They have a nicely written, in-depth piece on AOL's new head master, Dick Parsons, as he deals with the trials and tribulations of running such a large, well-known company as AOL.
Non-registration, direct link version: Tests Keep Coming for AOL Time Warner's Well-Tested Chief
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A classic's a classic, and there's no denying that.
New millenium this, new millenium that, but to me and many like myself, there'll only ever be one Commodore.
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Christ, you've posted every single story that's on the front page right now. You've been incessantly surfing through the queue submissions since 1pm yesterday.
;-)
Take a break man -- you deserve it!
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Just in case his little server goes down, here's the Google cache of the site.
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Have a great weekend everyone
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Hear me out, this isn't some troll or whatever. Sure, I appreciate wireless and all that jazz, but the IEEE takes advantage of its monopoly on electrical and computer standards.
Back when I was an undergrad (U of Co, BSEE) but had completed a design of a new Radio transposer technology which I had done for an obscure (then not NOW!) broadcast manufacturer. I wrote and submitted a paper to the IEEE Broadcast Society detailing the new approaches in transposer design including some (such as phase locked upconversion) which have since been patented and used widely in the field.
To my surprise my paper was accepted for presentation to the annual Symposium held in Wash. DC. However when I arrived for the symposium I discovered that my presentation was cancelled and replaced with some highly credentialled author who was to talk about the "social impact" of the media. Confronting the review commitee about this I was that there were to many(!) hard technical papers and that this new author can give us a perspective from outside our field. Besides, they said, he is a distinguished professor from Harvard (or Yale, I forgot) and you are just a college student.
I hung around to see what this new paper was about. Unfortunately for the author, he passed out his paper to the audience prior to his presentation. Apparently he had only submitted
an abstract which was full of the obfuscating politically correct terminology of the time. Well it turns out this guy was some right-wing kook who was blaming the jews in the media etc. Of course all his "credentials" were fake and nobody checked up on them.
The sponsors immediately cancelled his presentation and asked me to present my paper. You can imagine what my response was. Needless to say I resigned my membership in the IEEE.
... gets two-hundred bucks, and moves onto 802.16b ...
joeb ruin spells his name like i just did, not "joe bruin" (see article from story). besides, this is blatant troll. mod down.
The OpenBSD team is a really great group of hard-working coders that don't stop with writing just average code.
This latest security measure goes to show why they're still #1 when it comes to really closing up a machine's holes to prevent abuse and unwanted infiltration into a system.
Unfortunately, they still can't get UltraSparcIII documentation that they need for their project.
I urge you all to contact SUN Microsystems and demand that they hand over the details of the US III series computers.
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If you click a comment's unique ID number link, you'll see a box with detailed information on all the moderation that has gone into that comment.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda has always said that he refused to adopt a better moderation system, such as the one used at Kuro5hin, because it "wouldn't scale".
But then they implement this new system, which I'm sure takes up more CPU time than Kuro5hin's simple averaging scheme for comment score calculations.
Anyone else think this seems a bit hypocritical? Just give every member the right to vote on a scale from 1-5 for each comment, and then average the score. It'd make for a lot less -1, Interesting and 5, Troll comments -- that's for sure.
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The engine
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Every radio station in every city that's making any money is probably 9 times out of 10 part of ClearChannel's vast network (dare I say monopoly) of radio stations across the United States.
The same Top 40 songs are heard day in and day out in every city. Nothing changes. Only artists with big media contracts (Sony, Columbia, etc.) can afford to buy air time.
I often wonder why there's been little innovation on the radio. Bands like Radiohead come along, but I've probably only heard one song of theirs on the radio, and that was once or twice even.
Let the little guys get some airtime. Fight this consolidation. I urge you to contact your representatives in government.
*nix.org -- Just when you thought unbiased opinion pieces and news articles no longer existed...
I work in the classroom support field of a major private high school in the US.
We have since stopped using Debian since back at the beginning of the school year (September 2002). Between useless email fights like this one, to other arguments that were show-stopping and delayed new releases, I grew fed up.
I was glad to turn our school's IT system nearly 100% to Linux, but I was almost as glad to switch everything to a package-based, Gentoo Linux flavor.
The OS of Linux is great, but as for the extra flamebait cruft you see on the Debian list, that I can do without.
Get rid of Windows!
I guess you're right, if you assume that giving a good blowjob is a social skill.
You state that If I ever meet you on the street I'll kick your ass so hard you'll look like a pile of cherry cobbler run through the blender, but then conclude your brief essay with a mention of dining out with my mother, father, and sister while I sit at home in the basement with [my] Star Wars dolls, internet porn, and [my]friends and foes list.
I'm curious as to how I could continue browsing Slashdot after you kill me. I have a life philosophy of monism, which, unless it's wrong, would prohibit the continued existence of my soul after my body dies.
... but the Zoo relationship system in the Slash Code has now been fully updated. The tables in the Slashdot 2.2.x database have been rebuilt, and thus you can now once again view Friend/Foe relationship data for each registered member.
Just figured I'd let you all know since there's no Site Announcement capabilities in Slash Code.
Any other features I've forgot?
A warm, moist hole measuring 2" in diameter?
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No way in hell would I spend two or three days' worth of my salary on a little device that I'd probably either lose, step on by mistake, drop by mistake, or have stolen from me.
;-)
But then again, I'm one of those guys who spends five bucks on a pair of pharmacy glasses instead of $250 at LensCrafters, so YMMV