Comment Re:Stinkin' Chelsea (Score 1) 67
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on so early?
Comment Re:Neuromancer (Score 1) 382
Just one Neuromancer comment in the whole story? Damn, /.is getting stranger with each passing day.
Comment Re:Obvious Missing - GOLD (Score 1) 868
it's spelled nucular.
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam 335
ESCquire writes "Apparently, the Washington Post Blog 'Security Fix' managed to shut down McColo, a US-based hosting provider facilitating more than 75 percent of global spam. " Now how long before the void is filled by another ISP?
Baldness Gene Discovered — 1 In 7 Men "At Risk" 297
FiReaNGeL writes "Researchers conducted a genome-wide association study of 1,125 Caucasian men who had been assessed for male pattern baldness. They found two previously unknown genetic variants on chromosome 20 that substantially increased the risk of male pattern baldness. They then confirmed these findings in an additional 1,650 Caucasian men. 'If you have both the risk variants we discovered on chromosome 20 and the unrelated known variant on the X chromosome, your risk of becoming bald increases sevenfold. What's startling is that one in seven men have both of those risk variants.'" So maybe gene therapy will finally have a real purpose.
Comment Re:IRC++ (Score 1) 155
Yeah, we tried that where I work, except for the part of developing our own client.
People barely used the system despite the fact that me and the other guy that was an enthusiast of the system teached them all about how to use it, after installing and configuring Gaim on their machines. Some people (friends of ours) used irssi with SSL, because we configured a special encrypted port for testing, that unfortunately we weren't able to use from Gaim because it simply would refuse to accept the certificate and make the connection. Even so, it worked and it worked good.
When I came back from my vacation, no one used the IRC system anymore and all were using a poorly configured jabber server without encryption on a machine that crashes periodically because that used the same login authentication as the corporate email account provided for everyone.
The motive, they said, was the complexity of IRC. This complexity was, hm, the same of the actual system or even less, since we had not installed IRC Services on the server.
Maybe if we had developed our own IRC client and made it the most Idiot Friendly possible, we would be able all that nifty features of IRC you said. But the few people with a clue there never have time because they're too busy fixing the mistakes of that large majority of people without a clue. Pity.
People barely used the system despite the fact that me and the other guy that was an enthusiast of the system teached them all about how to use it, after installing and configuring Gaim on their machines. Some people (friends of ours) used irssi with SSL, because we configured a special encrypted port for testing, that unfortunately we weren't able to use from Gaim because it simply would refuse to accept the certificate and make the connection. Even so, it worked and it worked good.
When I came back from my vacation, no one used the IRC system anymore and all were using a poorly configured jabber server without encryption on a machine that crashes periodically because that used the same login authentication as the corporate email account provided for everyone.
The motive, they said, was the complexity of IRC. This complexity was, hm, the same of the actual system or even less, since we had not installed IRC Services on the server.
Maybe if we had developed our own IRC client and made it the most Idiot Friendly possible, we would be able all that nifty features of IRC you said. But the few people with a clue there never have time because they're too busy fixing the mistakes of that large majority of people without a clue. Pity.
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