Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment What about the children!?!?! (Score 0, Offtopic) 197

No seriously. I'd be curious about the legalities of this; can they ensure that the age of the person they're "outing" is an adult? Are their "children online privacy" laws in Brazil similar to the U.S.?

-- The latest weekly research to make your company more productive and innovative. http://newsletter.productive.e...

Comment Teaching Software Development (Score 5, Interesting) 98

Since the code needs to be audited anyways, it'd be a great chance for an instructor to introduce code reviews and/or pull requests. And maybe during that process, help enlighten other curious inmates as to how the system and programming works.

-- Jim
Your website could be better. Getting weekly feedback is a good starting point.

Comment Content Control (Score -1, Flamebait) 157

Has there ever been a case where the copyright owner claimed that a video like this wasn't intended for release, initiated DMCA takedowns and successfully repossessed the media? This feels like rare content that content holders would want to protect if possible, maybe even enhance for a future release..

-- Jim
Receive fresh, relevant feedback about your site. Delivered to your inbox every week. Launching soon.

Comment Applies to all events? (Score 5, Interesting) 194

Facebook makes me personally more engaged and thoughtful of all events, both news and personal.

It's amazing how I can see someone that I connected with on Facebook in real life and have a vague notion of what they are up to. It makes me feel connected. The same goes for news; my friends all read the new several times a day and therefore gives me a hand on the pulse of current events, even though that's not my intent.

Comment Journalist == Hacker? (Score 4, Interesting) 188

So, did this Phillips guy develop the trojan that stole the Fark passwords? Did this guy minor in CompSci?

So a news anchor has hacked Fark in an attempt to possibly steal source code for their own social networking site?
This apparently isn't your average local anchor.

Jim
RunFatBoy ( http://www.runfatboy.net/ ) - A workout plan for beginners.
Data Storage

Apple and LG plan Flash Laptops 197

Lucas123 writes "An article in Computerworld states that Apple and LG each plan to launch new laptops — one that's supposed to ship this month — with hybrid disk drives. The new drives are like hybrid cars in that the NAND flash memory works in conjunction with the spinning disk, kicking in data that can be cached like portions of the operating system, which can make for much faster boot up and resume times."

The Tech of the Colossus 62

Via a Cathode Tan post, a gloriously in-depth look at the technology behind the PS2 title Shadow of the Colossus. From that article: "In games such as DOOM3 on the PC, the model used for generating the shadow volume is almost equivalent to the character itself. But with SOTC, in order to speed this up, we made use of a simpler model with much fewer polygons in. The main character generally consists of 3,000 polygons, but the colossus can be around 18,000 polygons, depending on the type. But the model used for shadow generation will contain a substantially lower amount than this. For example, the simple model seen by the player will probably only use 1/40th of what the original model contained."

Slashdot Top Deals

"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen

Working...