seanyboy - Slashdot User

Comment Why the Lawyers though. (Score 2) 150

by seanyboy on Monday December 20, 2010 @06:10AM (#34613990) Attached to: Google Donates Windowbuilder, Codepro To Eclipse

This seems great, but it pisses me off that the lawyers have to get involved. It seems shockingly bad to me that we accept that there has to be lawyers too. That's how deeply they've embedded themselves into software licensing.

Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study 668

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:52AM from the you're-wrong-and-i-think-mr.-lincoln-knows-why dept.

w1z4rd writes "According to an article in the Guardian, scientists and economists have been offered large bribes by a lobbying group funded by ExxonMobil. The offers were extended by the American Enterprise Institute group, which apparently has numerous ties to the Bush administration. Couched in terms of an offer to write 'dissenting papers' against the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, several scientists contacted for the article refused the offers on conflict of interest grounds."

Journal SPAM: HiROC Photos of Mars 3

Journal by stoolpigeon on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:39AM

The HiRISE Operations Center (HiROC) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is responsible for the majority of the ground data system work for the HiRISE instrument. Observation planning, uplink, downlink, data processing, and instrument monitoring are all performed at HiROC. The HiRISE camera is one of six instruments on board the Mars Reconnaiss

Journal Journal: Concurrently Running Firewalls 2

Journal by ph4cr on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:01AM

I'm the Security Manager for one element of a multi faceted organization. That said, some of the dimmer lights around the table want to run both Windows firewall (XP) and another third party vendor's solution at the same time. I've come out against this as I think it's stupid and potentially problematic. I've had both yes and no responses from MS on this issue. Can the Slashdot user community provide reasons pro/con for this solution?

Submission + - Googlebomb defusing may blow up in Google's face

Submitted by linguista on Thursday February 01, 2007 @09:38AM

linguista writes: Nicholas Carr of the Guardian suggests that in deciding to take measures to stop googlebombing, the internet giant may actually be eroding trust:

The company is allowing concerns about its public image to influence the search results it dishes up. The upshot in this case may be salubrious, but what kind of precedent is being set here?

And, perhaps more important, what does it tell us about what's inside the Google black box that determines how most of us find information on the web most of the time?"

He suggests that the common perception that Google results merely reflect the opinion of the public is threatened when Google tweaks the results for its own ends, and this may ultimately erode trust in the internet giant.

Submission + - BBC To Host Multi-OS Debate

Submitted by Bananatree3 on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:51AM

Bananatree3 writes: BBC is currently seeking submissions from all you Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux devotees "in 100 words or less, why you are such a supporter of your chosen operating system and what features you love about it". They will then select one user of each platform to go head to head in a debate that will be part of the BBC's Microsoft Vista launch coverage on January 30th.

ASP.NET Ajax Released 101

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @01:31AM from the Redmond-does-Web-2.0 dept.

darrenkopp writes "Microsoft released their anticipated AJAX framework that integrates with their ASP.NET product .It is a fully supported product (24x7 phone support), but is completely free! They are releasing the source for it as well."

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