"By using a mathematical formula formula designed to strengthen the immune system, a team of scientists in Spain have succeeded in curing a patient who was in the last stage of terminal liver cancer."
A cure for cancer? By using math? Astounding! Unfortunately, the paper is rather short, and only speaks about the linear growth aspect.
It is a period of civil war. Open Source spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Microsoft Empire.
During the battle, Mozilla spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the INTERNET EXPLORER 7, a tabbed browser with enough market share to destroy the entire open source movement.
Pursued by Microsoft's sinister agents, BEN GOODGER races races home aboard his starship, custodian of the stolen code that can save his project and restore freedom (both libre and beer) to the internet...
"...as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."
Well, say someone broke into stock market computers, or bank computers, or servers of some other major financial institution...I'd say the potential for disruption is even greater than what happened on 9/11.
Non-sequitor - why would anyone in their right mind draw any conclusions about American technical prowess from this story?
As far as speculation goes, I'd say that using a Wiki method allowing competitors to change other entries is probably not the fairest way to run a contest, although it is interesting.
Will this make or break Transmeta? It uses their processors (Transmeta Tinside as the Register calls it). Slashdot already pronounced the death of Transmeta though (it has no more niches!), maybe this could revive interest?
Well a Permadeath-only game would be a failure, by why not have the option to make a permanent death or a regular character, and seperate the servers? This works in Diablo 2, the Permadeath (hardcore) characters are more fun to play with, the game is more challenging, you actually have to use your brain, and the best incentive, the items gained in hardcore mode are better than in normal. Plus it's a status symbol - "You have a Level 99 hardcore Assassin? Wow! I bow down to you."
It's not exactly an MMORPG, but it works alright. There are always those who seek to ruin the game by player-killing though, so anyone implementing Permadeath mode might want to take care of that, unlike Blizzard.
Here's a quick link to the wikipedia entry on Karma Whore. Karma Whore Some info on what Karma Whore's goals are. Karma Whore has three stated purposes: to post information about a topic that everyone already knows; to link to wikipedia, because wikipedia pwns; and most importantly, to sell his/her brain to slashdot in order to whore karma. (from my cortex)
Very true. Don't they have common carrier status (and therefore are not responsible for the content on their servers) or is that a U.S. thing? If so, I'm sure us Americans can petition some corporation to lobby Congress into making a treaty with the Australian government. I hear the "Liberal" government is America's crack whore. We ask for rimshot, they bend over.;]
Save the Sun! Stop the use of solar power now! By taking energy out of the solar system, we will affect the local energy structure, causing quantum fluctuations in the time cube!!!!
Do YOU want to kill the sun and cause the solar system to collapse into a single point? That's quite un-american! Perhaps you're a terrorist!
I also thought slashdot was fooled again, or at least this was a humor article.
It's not.
Red Nova appears to be a valid news site, and the Princeton University link at the bottom is the real thing, describing just what the article talked about.
You know, we all like to laugh at so called "psychic phenomena" or pseudoscience. I know, I do it too. But this is rather stunning...it's a Princeton University project, run by a group of scientists who respect the scientific method, who are trying to do their best at sounding humble while making extraordinary claims. The only question is if they actually have the data to back it up (some graphs would be nice).
Progress in science means shattering accepted theories. If this is what it seems to be, then the possibility of a scientific revolution, at the very least a whole new field of science, seems to be at hand.
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(3) The rights described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) shall not apply to any reproduction, depiction, portrayal, or other use of a work in, upon, or in any connection with any item described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of the definition of "work of visual art" in section 101, and any such reproduction, depiction, portrayal, or other use of a work is not a destruction, distortion, mutilation, or other modification described in paragraph (3) of subsection (a).
There. Got it? IF YOU TAKE A PICTURE OF A WORK OF VISUAL ART, YOU ARE NOT COMMITTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!
I'm sorry, this just pisses me off. The creator can not do this. The fucking balls and arrogance of some people, goddamn!
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From the article:
"By using a mathematical formula formula designed to strengthen the immune system, a team of scientists in Spain have succeeded in curing a patient who was in the last stage of terminal liver cancer."
A cure for cancer? By using math? Astounding! Unfortunately, the paper is rather short, and only speaks about the linear growth aspect.
Haven't you heard? Terrorism is the new communism now.
"...as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."
Well, say someone broke into stock market computers, or bank computers, or servers of some other major financial institution...I'd say the potential for disruption is even greater than what happened on 9/11.
Oh come on, they weren't that bad...
No... aluminium
Non-sequitor - why would anyone in their right mind draw any conclusions about American technical prowess from this story?
As far as speculation goes, I'd say that using a Wiki method allowing competitors to change other entries is probably not the fairest way to run a contest, although it is interesting.
I suppose these could be used to patrol the border (with Mexico of course) or scout out terrain or a combat zone in Iraq.
Will this make or break Transmeta? It uses their processors (Transmeta Tinside as the Register calls it). Slashdot already pronounced the death of Transmeta though (it has no more niches!), maybe this could revive interest?
This is not the OS you are looking for.
Well a Permadeath-only game would be a failure, by why not have the option to make a permanent death or a regular character, and seperate the servers? This works in Diablo 2, the Permadeath (hardcore) characters are more fun to play with, the game is more challenging, you actually have to use your brain, and the best incentive, the items gained in hardcore mode are better than in normal. Plus it's a status symbol - "You have a Level 99 hardcore Assassin? Wow! I bow down to you."
It's not exactly an MMORPG, but it works alright. There are always those who seek to ruin the game by player-killing though, so anyone implementing Permadeath mode might want to take care of that, unlike Blizzard.
hardware.slashdot.org? Where's the slashdot announcement? And why are octopi in the hardware section? Do they run linux or something?
Explanation in the title:
from the my-excuse-is-laziness dept.
Oh of course, because the comments in open-source applications are always squeaky clean!
Here's a quick link to the wikipedia entry on Karma Whore. Karma Whore Some info on what Karma Whore's goals are. Karma Whore has three stated purposes: to post information about a topic that everyone already knows; to link to wikipedia, because wikipedia pwns; and most importantly, to sell his/her brain to slashdot in order to whore karma. (from my cortex)
And this is why the internet is still a sucky form of communication. How's this for you?
[sarcasm]What, you mean the SDI wasn't real work?[/sarcasm]
Happy?
What, you mean the SDI wasn't real work?
http://bash.org/?332053
Not irony, but avoiding user confusion...
I do believe that is the first time I've seen a South Park screen capture modded up as informative.
/. never ceases to amaze me!
Very true. Don't they have common carrier status (and therefore are not responsible for the content on their servers) or is that a U.S. thing? If so, I'm sure us Americans can petition some corporation to lobby Congress into making a treaty with the Australian government. I hear the "Liberal" government is America's crack whore. We ask for rimshot, they bend over. ;]
They mean in the past 50,000 years, since the star is 50,000 light-years away, it didn't happen 400 years ago, but rather 50,000 years ago.
Ok, I'm nitpicking, but I didn't see enough pretty pictures.
Save the Sun! Stop the use of solar power now! By taking energy out of the solar system, we will affect the local energy structure, causing quantum fluctuations in the time cube!!!!
Do YOU want to kill the sun and cause the solar system to collapse into a single point? That's quite un-american! Perhaps you're a terrorist!
I'm sorry, Valentine's Day got to me pretty hard.
I also thought slashdot was fooled again, or at least this was a humor article.
It's not.
Red Nova appears to be a valid news site, and the Princeton University link at the bottom is the real thing, describing just what the article talked about.
You know, we all like to laugh at so called "psychic phenomena" or pseudoscience. I know, I do it too. But this is rather stunning...it's a Princeton University project, run by a group of scientists who respect the scientific method, who are trying to do their best at sounding humble while making extraordinary claims. The only question is if they actually have the data to back it up (some graphs would be nice).
Progress in science means shattering accepted theories. If this is what it seems to be, then the possibility of a scientific revolution, at the very least a whole new field of science, seems to be at hand.
God damn. This is fucking appalling!
UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 17, SECTION 106A, COPYRIGHT LAW ON WORKS OF VISUAL ARTS
(c) Exceptions.
(3) The rights described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) shall not apply to any reproduction, depiction, portrayal, or other use of a work in, upon, or in any connection with any item described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of the definition of "work of visual art" in section 101, and any such reproduction, depiction, portrayal, or other use of a work is not a destruction, distortion, mutilation, or other modification described in paragraph (3) of subsection (a).
There. Got it? IF YOU TAKE A PICTURE OF A WORK OF VISUAL ART, YOU ARE NOT COMMITTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!
I'm sorry, this just pisses me off. The creator can not do this. The fucking balls and arrogance of some people, goddamn!
Indeed. The goatse man now has a safe place to rest, forever. Long live hello.jpg!