illuvata - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Their lips get tired (Score 2, Informative) 951

by illuvata on Monday March 01, 2010 @12:37PM (#31317734) Attached to: How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages?

But there is a reason for the caps-lock key. Some people use it whenever they need to type capital letters, especially if they never learned to type with 9 fingers. Now you have a new group who will keep getting password wrong messages.

Comment Re:Justifying piracy on Slashdot (Score 2, Insightful) 342

by illuvata on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @01:35PM (#28705585) Attached to: Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury

You mean this site? It's still up, being updated, and in general shows no sign of having received a take down notice.

Comment Re:sigh (Score 1) 1582

by illuvata on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @06:15PM (#27424487) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

What do you mean? The FAQ specifically says:

Days Metamoderated in a Row -- your largest number of consecutive days metamodderating

Submission + - Monster squid caught in Antarctica

Submitted by

zakkie

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:46AM

zakkie writes: "New Zealand fisherman have caught a massive 450 kg colossal squid fishing in the Antartic waters. This is by far the biggest yet found, measuring over 10 metres in length and weighing 450 kg. It has been taken back to New Zealand to be studied."

Submission + - New Software Stops Mars Rover Confusion

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:28AM

MattSparkes writes: "The Mars rover Spirit used to get quite confused when it came upon a rock. Because it could only plan routes of a metre or two it couldn't understand how to navigate around large objects, and frequently used to rock back and forth for hours trying to figure it out. NASA have written new software called D* for the rover Opportunity, which should allow it to autonomously plan routes up to 50 metres long. The new software still won't be able to avoid sand-traps though."

Submission + - Australia Outlaws Incandescent Lightbulb

Submitted by

passthecrackpipe

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @05:05AM

passthecrackpipe writes: "The Australian Government is planning on making the incandescent ligtbulb a thing of the past. In three years time, standard lightbulbs will no longer be available for sale in the shops in Australia (expect a roaring grey market) and everybody will be forced to switch to more energy efficient Fluorescent bulbs. In this move to try and curb emissions, the incandescent bulb — which converts the majority of used energy to heat rather then light — will be phased out. Environmental groups have given this plan a lukewarm reception. They feel Australia should sign on to the Kyoto protocol first. (Article in Dutch). A similar plan was created together with Phillips, one of the worlds largest lighting manufacturers. What do other slashdotters think? Is this a move in the right direction? Will this boost the development of better fluorescent bulbs? Improve the design and lower the costs of LED lightbulbs? Will this plan make a big difference to the environment at all?"

Feed TSA Website Attacked By Phishers? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @01:12PM

A new online method for trying to resolve travelers' problems boarding planes looks like a typical phishing attack. In 27B Stroke 6.

Submission + - Do we need "root servers" for important DT

Submitted by pcause on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @09:29AM

pcause writes: Recently there was a glitch when someone at Netscape took down a page that had an important DTD (RSS) used by many applications and services. This got me thinking that many or all of the important DTDs that software and commerce depend on are hosted at various commercial entities. Is this a sane way to build an XML based Internet infrastructure? Companies come and go and get bought all the time. This means that the storage ad availability of those DTDs is in constant jeopardy.

It strikes me that we need an infrastructure akin to the root server structure to hold the key DTDs that are used throughout the industry. Perhaps W3C should operate this. But how would we pay for this?

Well, ./, what do you think?

Submission + - Viacom claims copyright on Irrlicht video.

Submitted by stinkytoe on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @08:47AM

stinkytoe writes: Nikolaus Gebhardt, developer of the cross-platform game engine library irrlicht, recently had one of his video tutorials taken off of youtube. From his blog:
"Viacom, the corporation behind MTV, DreamWorks and Paramount is now claiming they own the copyright on a video of an Irrlicht tutorial. Which is completely ridiculous, of course: The whole thing has been written by me and the Irrlicht team, even textures and skins and logos have been created by me, and an Irrlicht Engine user (veegun?) simply filmed and published it on Youtube.com. Here is a screenshot of the tutorial, it's really just a 2D GUI rendered using the 3D engine, nothing special at all."
Here is a thread on irrlicht's forum which contains a copy of the takedown notification. Makes me wonder what exactly about the video tweaked Viacom's interest.

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