No one has any comments? It somewhat surprises me that HP is going with Netscape and not Firefox; yea, the latter is community-driven and not backed by a large corporation (I don't know if Mozilla Corp. counts), but comparing the time-to-patch for the two products, you'd think they'd choose the best for their users.
Seriously, you owe it to yourself to read this. Updates every day, complex plot that still has lots of gags, characters you can really appreciate...there's nothing better in the genre.
...if this passes the House and the Senate, we're all really, really screwed. Let's hope this is one of those things that the Senate Judiciary Comittee does to scare us all so that their real plans don't look so evil.
I wonder how many weeks it'll be...oh, yea, they released it yesterday. If only all web browsers had these sorts of exploits -- that is, the already-patched type.
Yea, yea, I was just trying to wryly demonstrate the flipside of the "truly fantastic beast" which the parent (now great-grandparent) was talking about. Though, it does seem to take longer to build than qt or x.org...surely those are complex programs as well.
Re:The build system of OpenOffice is fantastic.
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The build system of OpenOffice is truly a fantastic beast to study. Indeed, when one looks deeply at it you see the sort of work that needs to be done to support the building of a massive C++ application with many different compilers on many different platforms. It's truly a feat of engineering what they accomplish in the build system alone, completely ignoring OpenOffice itself.
I guess that's why it takes 5 hours to compile in Gentoo, then. I wish I were exaggerating.
Geez, whoever moded me Flamebait didn't get that this was supposed to be a joke. I mean, he was extending the traditional Slashdot flamewar topic of Mozilla vs. Firefox/Thunderbird to relate to the *other* traditional Slashdot flamewar topic of Linux vs. BSD, so I figured it was only natural to "collect all three," so to speak, and add emacs vs. vi. Some people just can't take a joke.
It doesn't matter who learned of the object first, it matters who announced first. However, if it can be shown that Dr. Ortiz only announced first because he unethically took data (or meta-data, as the case may be) from Dr. Brown, then he should be reprimanded.
A lot of people are saying, "Well, if Dr. Brown wanted to get the credit, he should have announced the discovery as soon as he made it." I like Dr. Brown's response on why waiting benefits not only the scientific community but also the public at large:
Consider, for example, the instantaneous Ortiz et al. announcement of the existence of 2003 EL61. Headlines in places like the BBC web site breathlessly exclaimed "new object may be twice the size of Pluto." But even at the time we knew that 2003 EL61 had a satellite and was only 30% the mass of Pluto. We quickly got the truth out, but just barely. Sadly, other interesting aspects of 2003 EL61 also got lost in the shuffle. No one got to hear that it rotates every 4 hours, faster than anything else known in the Kuiper belt. Or how that fast rotation causes it to be shaped like a cigar. Or how we use the existence of the satellite to calculate the mass. All of these are interesting things that would have let the public learn a bit more about the mysteries of physics and of the solar system. In the press you get one chance to tell the story. In the case of the instantaneous announcement of 2003 EL61 the story was simply "there is a big object out there." We are saddened by the lost opportunity to tell a richer scientific story and to have the public listen for just one day to a tale that included a bit of astronomy, a bit of physics, and a bit of detective story.
Actually, in my experience CS at Caltech is more accurately referred to as "computation theory," a purely theoretical mathematical dicipline. Perhaps Sterling's work was too practical for the administration's taste...
You guys would be really happy to know that when the subject of licensing issues came up at a synthetic biology conference I attended back in October, there was only one question: "GPL or BSD-style?" Seriously, folks, we are you. Biologists aren't scary people who try to play God and own everyone's genetic sequence; we're also code hackers, though we may hack a different type of code.
Not a single "OMG! The evil biologists are creating life! Soon they'll create bio-grey goo and kill us all!!!" comment. I am pleasantly (and greatly) surprised. Incidently, I work in this field, and while we're certainly not creating life (I think that was thrown in by MSNBC's crappy reporters), we're basically trying to apply EE-type methods to biology. You guys should love this stuff.
Seriously, what Slashdot needs is a -1, Factually Incorrect moderation. Take a look at the National Institute of Health page on the issue. The "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" myth is possibly the stupid belief most directly harmful to its adherents. Even Scientology doesn't say "Trust us, arsenic is good for you."
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No one has any comments? It somewhat surprises me that HP is going with Netscape and not Firefox; yea, the latter is community-driven and not backed by a large corporation (I don't know if Mozilla Corp. counts), but comparing the time-to-patch for the two products, you'd think they'd choose the best for their users.
Can someone give me an invite? Oh, and maybe First Post.
RTFA you linked to. Brown never claimed Sedna should be considered the 10th planet; if some stupid reporter said as much, who cares?
Both Sedna and EL61 are smaller than Pluto; only UB313 is larger. And yes, EL61 has a sattelite. The news here is that UB313 does as well.
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
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Seriously, you owe it to yourself to read this. Updates every day, complex plot that still has lots of gags, characters you can really appreciate...there's nothing better in the genre.
Also, for all your D&D-based humor needs: http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscrip
...if this passes the House and the Senate, we're all really, really screwed. Let's hope this is one of those things that the Senate Judiciary Comittee does to scare us all so that their real plans don't look so evil.
...not that that's good either.
Same with Gentoo: Firefox packages
I wonder how many weeks it'll be...oh, yea, they released it yesterday. If only all web browsers had these sorts of exploits -- that is, the already-patched type.
I didn't actually know that. Interesting.
Yea, yea, I was just trying to wryly demonstrate the flipside of the "truly fantastic beast" which the parent (now great-grandparent) was talking about. Though, it does seem to take longer to build than qt or x.org...surely those are complex programs as well.
Which is the bigger flamewar topic, Linux vs. BSD or emacs vs. vi?
Clearly the latter is a bigger flamewar topic. Only Nazis would believe otherwise.
(And yes, it's a joke.)
Geez, whoever moded me Flamebait didn't get that this was supposed to be a joke. I mean, he was extending the traditional Slashdot flamewar topic of Mozilla vs. Firefox/Thunderbird to relate to the *other* traditional Slashdot flamewar topic of Linux vs. BSD, so I figured it was only natural to "collect all three," so to speak, and add emacs vs. vi. Some people just can't take a joke.
Since when has that been an actual phrase?
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So basically, you're saying that Mozilla is like emacs and Firefox/Thunderbird/etc. are like vi?
You can already have the Windows Vista interface on OS X. It's called Aqua.
It doesn't matter who learned of the object first, it matters who announced first. However, if it can be shown that Dr. Ortiz only announced first because he unethically took data (or meta-data, as the case may be) from Dr. Brown, then he should be reprimanded.
Actually, in my experience CS at Caltech is more accurately referred to as "computation theory," a purely theoretical mathematical dicipline. Perhaps Sterling's work was too practical for the administration's taste...
I think someone's taking Real Genius a little bit too literally (yes, I am an undergrad at Caltech).
You guys would be really happy to know that when the subject of licensing issues came up at a synthetic biology conference I attended back in October, there was only one question: "GPL or BSD-style?" Seriously, folks, we are you. Biologists aren't scary people who try to play God and own everyone's genetic sequence; we're also code hackers, though we may hack a different type of code.
Not a single "OMG! The evil biologists are creating life! Soon they'll create bio-grey goo and kill us all!!!" comment. I am pleasantly (and greatly) surprised. Incidently, I work in this field, and while we're certainly not creating life (I think that was thrown in by MSNBC's crappy reporters), we're basically trying to apply EE-type methods to biology. You guys should love this stuff.
Seriously, what Slashdot needs is a -1, Factually Incorrect moderation. Take a look at the National Institute of Health page on the issue. The "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" myth is possibly the stupid belief most directly harmful to its adherents. Even Scientology doesn't say "Trust us, arsenic is good for you."
I think my mistake is at least understandable.
I mean, the review is written by a Lian-Li employee, and the story was submitted here by an "anonymous reader." Seems like a blatent plug to me.