since our initial review of yahoo buzz earlier this year not much has changed about the service. at the same time however the perception acceptance and impact of the service has changed drastically. the service has shown that it can send enormous amounts of traffic very talkative traffic and has displaced digg as the most active social news community. in the process they added widgets and rss and ...
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for reasons i can only speculate about two of my most popular articles to date remain the next big thing in blogging software and a year later an overview of multiblog software options. the first was written over four years ago and the second just under three years ago. in the online world that is eons. one might ask that if these have proven to be such popular articles why not update them more f...
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slashdot adi shamir rsa s itai dinur block cipher cryptographic hash function new attack against multiple encryption functions bruce schneier block cipher cryptographic hash function......
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in sept. 1991 microsoft exec jim allchin emailed ceo bill gates we must slow down novell. as you said bill it has to be dramatic. we need to slaughter novell before they get stronger. and in 2001 microsoft chief steve ballmer likened linux to cancer. later that year gates derided opensource licensing models like the one used by linux as pacmanlike. thats some heavy rhetoric. certainly its represen...
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sometimes latenight when i should be actually working i divert myself with one of the webs oldest aggregation sites. slashdot is a festival of news for nerds stuff that matters and at least some of it emerges from a small town near ann arbor michigan so sammy would tell you it cant be all bad. so tonight the headlines are pouring into my sleepdeprived eyeballs and they read like so much bad tech p...
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...oisins du sud sont rendus radicalistes mais disons que la liberta saffrite petit a petit et que le pratexte utilisa est la peur. pas nimporte laquelle celle davoir peur......
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a kiddie show football and a couple of overlords in this weeks nintendo news wrap up. a introducing the magic roundabout the world of magic roundabout will be brought to the ds and wii for those in the pal territories. seriously anyone knows what the magic roundabout is about a madden nfl 09 sold at 7eleven stores at midnight august 12th ea partners with 7eleven to promote madden 09. the store wil...
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slashdot parece haberse inspirado en el wtf de microsiervos para lanzar su nueva seccian de humor llamada idle. la idea principal es colocar todo aquello que en largas y productivas horas encuentran los editores lectores y colaboradores de slashdot que tengan que ver con el tapico de humor vadeos virales memes y fotos interesantes o graciosas. todo un derroche de improductividad pura y dura. u...
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linux on the palm tungsten e sf.net projects linux on the palm tungsten e screenshots linux on the palm tungsten e search project advanced summary web site screenshots news statistics tracker bugs feature requests patches support requests toolsstatistics search mailinglists toolssearch forums general forum toolsstatistics search ...
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from slashdot techmuse writes viewing the 2008 olympics opening ceremony online at nbcs olympics website you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony as listed at wikipedia. nbc skipped roughly 100 countries ahead then jumped back and forth apparently delaying the appearance of the united states in its ho...
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as a web developer i consider part of my job responsibilities to ensure that i am aware of technologies coming down the pipe and to changes to the market the internet. sure i have to keep up with the differences between firefox and internet explorer jquery and prototype cakephp and symfony. but i wouldnt consider these market altering changes. since ive only been in web development for a few yea...
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there was a time not too long ago when you could spot spam comments on a blog from a mile away. there were too many links the comment was offtopic and they were trying to promote a pyramid scheme website. but as human and automated filters started catching problematic posters their techniques became more sneaky. soon there were comments that were ontopic but included a link to a product or the com...
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there was a time not too long ago when you could spot spam comments on a blog from a mile away. there were too many links the comment was offtopic and they were trying to promote a pyramid scheme website. but as human and automated filters started catching problematic posters their techniques became more sneaky. soon there were comments that were ontopic but included a link to a product or the com...
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four simple letters g r e g. also one of the most prolific and thoughtful bloggers here on bmg with impressive credentials. do you know greg well enough no you dont there are few things that can spawn an extended discussion amongst political folks than ideas about changing electoral systems. similar to asking college football fanatics what they think of the bcs asking political junkies about the e...
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.... www.nytimes.com bbc.co.uk www.nytimes.com feedburner http status 400 you must provide a feed uri www.tuxmachines.org feedburner http status 400 you must provide a feed uri slashdot.org del.icio.us del.cio.us bbc.co.uk note these are examples that change slightly every day but overall there are pretty much always issues with nytimes.com and tuxmac...
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jag ar i lulea och tittar till barn och barnbarn. den har helgen ar det lulekalaset och dottern ville ha barnvakt. det betydde att verksamheten fick flytta norrut under helgen. far mig ar det alltid vilsamt att komma hemifran. inget av det som vanligtvis star och irriterar finns runtomkring. det farsta tecknet pa att jag slappnade av var att jag tog langre tid pa mig nar jag gick igenom rssnyheter...
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i upgraded to iphone os v2.0 a while before i got a 3g iphone very worthwhile for me since i spend most of my time outside wifi coverage now. since the upgrade i have noticed a few things which i have not seen mentioned elsewhere. continual pseudogps updating in original models on my original iphone under iphone os v1.x tapping the crosshair button in maps used to locate me the button turned bl...
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patrick lagaca brought up a point about comments on blogs and how hes not entirely sure what good they do him. being a popular blog it gets a lot of trolls and other pointless and unhelpful commentary. comments easily reach into the dozens sometimes hundreds. that was also the subject of an interview pat did on cibl with michel dumais mario asselin has the details in which pat totally namedrops me...
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is that that its going to be full of rubbish. wikipedia which arguably has less authority because contributions can be anonymous will likely have more authority since it is moreorless restricted by its community to one entry per topic. another way of looking at this is that on wikipedia if you want to contribute to a topic that already has an article you have no choice but to try and improve the ...
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filed under newswikiwatcher has just officially released their new tools. we covered their announcement at the last hope just last month. the 2.0 version of wikiscanner is not ready just yet. poor mans checkuser exposes the ips of quite a few user accounts. there is a wealth of data here which can be used as a base for your own tools. potential sockpuppetry is a good example of using this data it ...
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ever run through an integer beforeone of the early design decisions in drizzle was we were going to make the decision of field types simpler.24bit ints multiple blob sizes display ranges on numeric types floats over doubleswhy do we have types good storage. constraintwe took those two principles and made a couple of decisions.1 blow the constraint we throw an error.2 good strorage means not only s...
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... algum esforao para conseguir tirar o que quer da iso. a iso ja perdeu a credibilidade. pelo menos a nossa credibilidade. nas que estamos sempre na internet blogando lendo blogs twitters e sites como slashdot.org brlinux e groklaw. depois de toda aquela palhaaada da iso em tornar o ooxml um padrao os anicos que continuarao acreditando nela serao aqueles alunos e professores de faculdade que sa laem o...
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google caught on private property slashdot usa i am dutch and many of my friends smoked cannabis. i have seen them drive and traveled as a passenger with them and id rather be in a car with someone .........
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last month i read little brother by cory doctorow and really liked it. liked it so much that i wrote a review of it for the upcoming issue of canadian bookseller magazine. little brother is a ya novel dealing with issues close to doctorows heart and mine increasing loss of privacy surveillance in our society and a growing apathy toward giving away our most intimate life details in exchange for ne...
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