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Comment Re:It could have been worse (Score 1) 480

by kbmccarty on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:42AM (#51761331) Attached to: How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript

He could have updated the module to delete and format the contents of every machine it was run on. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't happened before considering how many modern environments have such slapdash dependency systems.

It looks like this is still within the realm of possibility: http://www.drinchev.com/blog/a...

Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market 686

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @04:45PM from the sterile-absentia dept.

alx5000 writes "In an interview conducted last week with Consumer Eroski (link in Spanish; Google translation), the father of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov claimed that 'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity. When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"

Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 861

by kbmccarty on Thursday January 10, 2008 @02:26PM (#21987480) Attached to: Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries

Exactly, this is a tempest in a teapot unless there is more information. One needs to show that the effect of electronic versus hand-counted votes on the election is statistically independent of the composition of the population (race, median income, M/F ratio, etc.) of each district. Probably districts where hand-counting is still used are on average poorer than those with e-voting machines, for instance.

The linked site makes a first stab at this by breaking down the data into "small towns", "medium towns" and "large towns", but that's only a start at making a real convincing argument. As the parent states, a comparison of the difference %(Obama) - %(Clinton) to the same quantity in the exit poll results, in hand-counted vs. e-voting districts, would be much more convincing. (Note, I say this as someone who much prefers Obama over Clinton.)

Chinese Worm Creator Gets High-Paying Job Offer In Prison 148

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @10:03AM from the now-i-see-what-it-takes dept.

martinsslaves writes "The recently imprisoned creator of China's worst computer virus ever (worm.whboy) has now been offered a job paying millions of yuan from his prison cell. He's actually been offered several, and one of the companies that has offered him the position of Technology Director was actually affected by his virus. The General Manager there now believes the virus writer may have just been 'led astray'. The media is reporting that author Li Jun originally wrote the virus due to frustrations over being jobless. 'So far, about 10 network companies across the country have offered jobs to Li, whom they regarded was a "precious genius," the report said citing Li's lawyer Wang Wanxiong. Li's cyber bug, which earned him about 145,000 yuan after selling it to other hackers from December 2006 to February this year, can prevent infected computers from operating anti-virus software and all programs using the "exe" suffix.'"

Smarter Teens Have Less Sex 1285

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @10:33AM from the still-no-excuse-for-you dept.

Tech.Luver writes "Gene Expression reports, "Tyler Cowen quotes from a new study testing the relationship between grades and delayed sexual activity. Last December I passed a paper along to Razib showing that high-school age adolescents with higher IQs and extremely low IQs were less likely to have had first intercourse than those with average to below average intelligence. (i.e. for males with IQs under 70, 63.3% were still virgins, for those with IQs between 70-90 only 50.2% were virgin, 58.6% were virgins with IQs between 90-110, and 70.3% with IQs over 110 were virgins) In fact, a more detailed study from 2000 is devoted strictly to this topic, and finds the same thing: Smart Teens Don't Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either). ""

Journal Journal: Lost wedding ring

Journal by kbmccarty on Sunday July 08, 2007 @07:07AM

Hi Slashdot,

I lost my wedding ring on the beach in Pineto, Italy, on 7/7/2007. I hope you don't mind me linking from my Slashdot journal to this page with more details, in hopes of increasing the odds someone will be able to find the page in Google should they find the ring.

The Hubble Lives On 132

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @12:03PM from the still-flying dept.

tanman writes "CNN reports that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has agreed to send astronauts on one final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. No date was reported for the mission, other than before the shuttle fleet is retired. From the article, 'A rehab mission would keep Hubble working until about 2013. It would add two new camera instruments, upgrade aging batteries and stabilizing equipment, add new guidance sensors and repair a light-separating spectrograph. Without a servicing mission, Hubble will likely deteriorate in 2009 or 2010.'"

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