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Comment Re: Libertarian expects free money (Score 0) 213

He does Wing Chun. It's not that physically demanding. I've met the guy. His opinion of himself is not in line with reality. I'm 60 and anytime he wants to put money on going up against me in an MMA round, I'm game. Oh wait, he's begging for $6k.

Comment Re:Make (Score 4, Insightful) 327

This is really disappointing to me as well. I've been a subscriber since its inception, but I'm about to let it drop. I know which end of a soldering gun to hold. I don't have a desire to add a toggle switch to a toy to impress hipsters.

Where are the articles like:

- Build a high quality mass spectrometer (http://old.4hv.org/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=1268)

- Convert a cheap Chinese milling machine to CNC (http://www.hossmachine.info/)

- Build a Tesla Turbine and reap geothermal energy.

It went from being "Make useful stuff" to "Make crap to impress dumb people"

Comment Re:Google is the competition.. (Score 1) 528

As a corporation, Microsoft needs to increase revenue, yet they are saturated in the OS and Office markets. They look to Google profits and want to be Google's competitor.

So Microsoft probably views themselves as Google's biggest competitor, whereas Google perceives them as a has-been.

Microsoft needs desperately to be relevant in the Internet age. Yet their fanatical adherence to maintaining their monopolies restrict them from entering other markets.

Textbook case of 'The Innovator's Dilemma':

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Business-Essentials/dp/0060521996

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Man Builds His Own Subway 174

jerryjamesstone writes "Everybody is into rail these days; it is the greenest way to get around next to a bike. Leonid Mulyanchik has been into it for years since before the Berlin Wall fell, since before the first Macintosh, building his own private underground Metro railway system. English-Russia says that he has been doing it with his pension, that it is all legal and approved and that he is still at it. Gizmodo calls it 'Partly the traditional, inspiring, one man against all odds type of persistence, but more the obsessive, borderline insane persistence.'" Update: 06/02 07:33 GMT by T : And if you're the type to visit Burning Man, you can actually ride a home-made monorail this summer, too.

Comment Re:Please let me use the same password (Score 4, Insightful) 497

Pretend that if an attempt to log into his account fails three times, his account is locked and requires a new password.

Or pretend that your security system notes what IP address such failures comes from, and disables all access from that IP. Or it scores various IP connections, giving more trust to IP addresses that are successful.

Whenever I see the onus forced on users, I see people who haven't learned the wisdom of the following quote:

"I object to doing things that computers can do." - Olin Shivers

Comment Re:Verifying hiring practices... (Score 2, Insightful) 223

Trust me, having Google or Amazon on the resume means a lot more the having Microsoft on the resume.

The former two guarantee you know something about scaling (insane scaling), the later only guarantees you know how to develop for Windows.

The former two haven't drowned themselves in bureaucracy. The later has.

The former two still have managers with technical chops. The later has MBA's for managers.

Republicans

Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash 377

A dozen readers have submitted the story of the death in a plane crash of Mike Connell, Karl Rove's IT adviser, the man who set up and ran the gwb43.com mail server, and an important figure in GOP tech circles since 1997. The closest thing to straight reporting to be found in a mainstream media outlet is a piece from KDKA in Pittsburgh giving a detailed backgrounder on Connell's work for Rove, two generations of the Bush family, and many GOP congressmen and committees. CBSNews.com is now mirroring the KDKA reporting. Almost all the early media coverage comes from the left and some of it is frankly conspiratorial. Among the milder pieces (although it could not be called balanced) is this interview with Mark Crispin Miller, NYU professor and author of two books about the 2004 election in Ohio. Connell was compelled to testify on the day before the US election in a lawsuit involving Ohio election irregularities in 2004. Connell, an experienced pilot, died on Sunday when his plane crashed two miles short of the runway of Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio.
Television

iPlayer Released for Mac, Linux; Adobe Announces AIR for Linux 231

Zoxed writes "The BBC reports that their iPlayer has just been released for Mac and Linux (download page). It is based on Adobe Air, but unfortunately the service is only available to UK IP address, so I can not test it out from my adopted homeland of Germany. Perhaps a UK-based Slashdotter could review it?" In related news, an anonymous reader writes "Adobe has announced a Linux version of its AIR 1.5 runtime environment that is supposed to allow rich web apps developed on it to run on Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10 and openSuse 10.3 with no modification. The company released versions for Windows and Mac OS X back in November."
Idle

The Hawaii Chair 2

Here is the latest creation from the makers of The Sauna Shoe and The Baby Dumbbell. With The Hawaii Chair, you can exercise your abs and induce vomiting all while you work.
Space

Submission + - New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions

i_like_spam writes: The theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact, the K-T extinction, is well known and supported by fossil and geological evidence. Asteroid impact theory does not apply to the other fluctuations in biodiversity, however, which follow an approximate 62 million-year cycle. As reported in Science news, a new theory seems to explain periodic mass extinctions. The new theory found that oscillations in the Sun relative to the plane of the Milky Way correlate with changes in biodiversity on Earth. The researchers suggest that an increase in the exposure of Earth to extragalatic cosmic rays causes mass extinctions. Here is the original paper describing the finding.

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