Comment Re: Original? (Score 1) 59
You're right. I stand corrected. Thanks!
Comment Original? (Score 1) 59
Maybe the first FOSS one.
Comment Lost control? (Score 2) 338
From the two videos I saw, it didn't look like the pilot lost control. It looks more like he attempted an inverted loop, but misjudged the amount of altitude he needed to complete it. Then again, I wasn't there.
Politically Correct Zoology 218
flynny51 writes "Dr. Dylan Evans of the School of Medicine, University College, Cork, Ireland, has had a two-year period of intensive monitoring and counseling imposed upon him and as a result his application for tenure is likely to be denied. His offense — sharing an article from a peer-reviewed journal on fellatio in fruit bats."
Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll 239
Amigan writes "Over on Groklaw, PJ is reporting that an actual demonstration of the Amiga OS (circa 1988) on an Amiga A1000 may have been the turning point in the lawsuit of IP Innovation v. Red Hat/Novell."
Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? 609
i_ate_god writes "I download a lot of 720/1080p videos, and I also produce a lot of raw uncompressed video. I have run out of slots to put in hard drives across two computers. I need (read: want) access to my files at all times (over a network is fine), especially since I maintain a library of what I've got on the TV computer. I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all hard drives available all the time on my network. I'm assuming that, since it's on a network, I won't need 16,000 RPM drives and thus I'm hoping a solution exists that can be moderately quiet and/or hidden away somewhere and still keep somewhat cool. So Slashdot, what have you done?"
Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Wi-Fi Data While Mapping 215
Even if Google says there's nothing to worry about, newviewmedia.com writes, the company "said it would stop collecting Wi-Fi network data from its StreetView cars, after an internal investigation it conducted found it was accidentally collecting data about websites people were visiting over the hotspots.
From the WSJ article: 'It's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open [i.e. non-password-protected] Wi-Fi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products.'"
Comment Poor Investigative Reporting (Score 1) 626
The part about the Partriot missile isn't at all clear on explaining how the computational error resulted in the mistake. A quick search led to this article, which is far more plausable: http://www.mc.edu/campus/users/travis/syllabi/381/patriot.htm
It's programmers who suck at math, not computers. Computers do exactly what you tell them to, which includes how they're designed to interpret what you tell them to do. This was a tragic example of what can happen when reusing legacy software.
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