Slashdot Mirror


User: antonyb

antonyb's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
55
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 55

  1. Re:A Technicality: on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 2
    This isn't the whole story.

    Your bank only knows that you spent money at Nordstrom. It doesn't have an item level transaction history, so it cannot know that you bought shoes unless it has access to Nordstrom's transaction logs. Therefore, for this to really fly, the retailer has to share their t-logs with the bank. So the banks aggregate t-log data from a number of retailers, and then resell that information back to the retailers.

    Ant.

  2. Age-old debate? on South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 · · Score: 1
    "This move also re-ignites the age-old debate about whether or not students learn better from screens or printed material"

    I think Aristotle first raised this question; several thousand years later Descartes weighed in too, but he was a luddite.

  3. Re:Sounds like someone 'famous' is out of cash on Twitter Sued By British Soccer Player · · Score: 1

    Sherman Tank has an entirely different meaning in Rhyming Slang.

  4. Excellent! on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1
    Hopefully this'll be completed just around the time the UK completes its digital switchover and FM becomes redundant.

    ant.

  5. Re:Let's try it without reading TFA on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Wrong, because in your first two lines you've got boy(tuesday) / boy(tuesday) once per line. These are identical, so there are only 27 distinct options, not 28.

  6. Its going to get much worse... on Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America · · Score: 5, Informative
  7. Re:Debate! on Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we'll need to teach 'em Latin too.

  8. Re:Rources on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're right - there is an extradition treaty between Italy & the US - but this wasn't extradition, it was kidnap pure & simple. 23 agents from the CIA office in Milan have been convicted in absentia.

    See e.g. the BBC.

    Hearts & minds.

    ant.

  9. Re:Could happen on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    If this is true, its a shame that the Higgs Boson couldn't have found some way of rippling back through time to a slightly earlier point, and stopping the construction of the LHC in the first place, thereby saving us many billions of euros :( ant.

  10. Re:Too bad on Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely · · Score: 1

    download the Linux binary from the website

    Maybe they looked at how many times this was downloaded?

    Ant.

  11. Re:thats nice and all on Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Out of interest, where else have you watched documentaries?

    Ant.

  12. Re:whats the crime in hate crime? on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    "Rules for Radicals" is by Saul Alinsky, not William Ayers.

  13. Re:how would you ban it? on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the difference between good & services is at all obvious. Manufacturing software or t-shirts could both be done by US or foreign citizens. So does this hold for, e.g. Gap? Should all their produce by manufactured in the US? Should they not use foreign manufacturers?

  14. Re:lazy ppl are lame on National "Dragnet" Connecting at State, Local Level · · Score: 1

    legalize marijuana How is that going to help people switch off their televisions?
  15. Re:Informative to whom? on Enceladus "Sea" Mystery Deepens · · Score: 1

    I think that most Americans would appreciate hearing more than just one viewpoint on how their money is being spent Isn't that basically how you ended up with intelligent design on the syllabus?
  16. Re:Hrmph. on OOXML's 662 Resolutions · · Score: 1
    Thanks for sharing that with us.

    Ant.

  17. Re:C++ long-in-the-tooth? on Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks · · Score: 1

    Nor anyone making sweeping generalities.

  18. Re:Crumble Crumble.... on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 2, Funny

    who ends up with SCO's assets and IP? Yes - for instance the brand name must be worth quite a lot. SCO, as a brand, speaks to me of honesty, reliability, innovation and customer service.

    Then again I'm waiting for Enron to reopen for business so I can invest my life savings in another rock-solid business.

    ant.
  19. The Dead on Microsoft's OOXML Formulas Could Be Dangerous · · Score: 1

    According to Rob Weir's blog, Microsoft's 325-page OOXML specification for spreadsheet formulas is deeply flawed. So that's what the boys from the Grateful Dead are up to these days.... ant.
  20. Usenet on Michael Moore's New Film Leaked To BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    It was on usenet the middle of last week. ant.

  21. Re:Bad line wrapping! on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 1

    You're obviously not married...

  22. Re:Can we have Source? on Vista Protected Processes Bypassed · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but discovering how it works is trivial, using a tool like IDA Pro, of which I am a happy costumer. Refusing to give out source for this, citing security reasons, reminds me of certain proprietary software companies running scared.


    Really? What do you make it wear?

    ant.

  23. Re:Cultural differences create misunderstandings on Study Finds Cost Major Factor In Outsourcing Positions · · Score: 5, Insightful
    An intelligent comment in a Slashdot discussion on outsourcing? Now I've seen everything :)


    I'm a westerner living in India, and my opinion of the place & the people pretty much exactly matches what you've written. I've had to spend a lot of time building a really good team, but now that team is at least as good as any team I've worked with at home, twice as hard-working, and, yes, hugely cheaper.

    And no, India hasn't reached its full potential yet. The two main issues that are likely to prevent it are the politicization of the education system as commented on in TFA (Karnataka, the state Bangalore is in has moved to prevent English being the primary language taught in schools in order to win votes with the the rural majority who have been opposed to the enormous growth in the cities as it has stretched even further the gap between rich & poor), and the hyperinflation of salaries. There's a good chance that India will become too expensive to operate in before it reaches that potential.

    ant.

  24. Re:Summary of the Corporate Attitudes on Study Finds Cost Major Factor In Outsourcing Positions · · Score: 1
    Import duty and shipping costs.

    They can sell their products cheaper by manufacturing them locally. The same does not apply to software development.

    ant.

  25. Re:Port 69 on SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah · · Score: 4, Funny
    No, no, no. It stands for "Tube For The Porn". Its all about the Tubes, these days.


    While we're at it, TCP stands for "Tube Carrying Porn", and IP is "Internet Porn", which goes to prove that the internet is founded on porn.


    ant.