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- Germany uses n-word to describe American policies
- Germany uses n-word to describe American policiesNeed a big SUV for personal transport because you ate too much?Yeah the psychology is just too much me-me-me. It'll take a generation or two to sort it out IF action is even taken. But then, who wants to take action if it doesn't...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-19
- The big pharma credibility gap
- Whenever I visit my family doctor the candyman is there. The candyman is my nickname for my doctor's drug rep, or "detail man." His candy consists of samples. Sometimes, if my symptoms are right, I get some. Candymen may have more to do with your medical visit than...
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Parents emphasize safety, not credibility online
- Parents emphasize safety, not credibility onlineAdvocacyAny time schools propose what children should and should not do, the discussion is about values. The ability to recognize worthwhile information on the internet is affected by individual definitions of worthwhile.The children are being told how to expect information to be worthwhile, which...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- The greatest book of all time
- In the interest of making this blog more accessible to a variety of folks interested in educational technology, and not just budding Linux geeks like me, I started thinking this weekend about interesting ways to bring technology into the average classroom. (For a little bit of background, see the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- AMD's no angel, but Intel's public usage of benchmark data is feloniously misleading
- In recent weeks here at ZDNet, I have been matter, and my colleague George Ou has been anti-matter. Or maybe the other way around. Publicly on ZDNets blogs, George has taken both me and the New York Times David Pogue to task over our position on digital cameras and their...
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- Fiction as causation
- Fiction as causationRudy...What is the point here....?Is this just another non specific abstract ramble?That is kind of oddhttp://tinyurl.com/g5xm2Mixed messages?You need to read more books.What Paul is trying to show is how science-fiction is becoming reality. I know, I've been watching another type of sci-fi invade our reality.I'm a forum...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Photos: Life imitates Star Trek
- The devices used by Capt. Kirk and his crew seemed so futuristic at one time. But reality has caught up to fiction.
- Image galleries 2006-10-05
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- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugsAnother attack path: Just what we need!Now that there are millions of instances of every type of microprocessor, ANY bug in one will be in millions of systems. Relying on bugs is---um---buggy, but just checking every system you can (as a criminal,...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Summer reading for kids
- A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included all of the usual suspects from Bradbury to Asimov to Pratchett to Douglas Adams. However, the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Software's drive to become like television
- Software's drive to become like televisionTypoFrom the comment:Free as in cost software, however, has the advantage of achieving large market share very quickly, as the consumption barrier is practically non-existent. That’s the recipe for the success of both Adobe and Flash, two products that clearly dominate their respective categories, but...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A ComputerThinking Machines Are Truly Science FictionMan can never build / create anything more intelligent than himself: natural law prevents this from happening. It is the lack of recognition of the law which states that nothing can create something substantially greater than itself, which...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA
- Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- All the things Sun Ray won't do
- All the things Sun Ray won't doNopeI can't, maybe i'm biased too. But when you hear senior IT-ers go on about helpdesks the size of 2 to 3 headstrong, instead of the at least 10 to 25 to 100 you have nowadays with the Windows environments.The problem with Wintel desktops...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Dell's product lust: Are we there yet?
- Dell's product lust: Are we there yet?Look at the contextI don't believe that every person on this earth should be required to speak English. I find other languages fascinating (although I'm horrible at speaking them myself), but having the diversity of language, I feel, is a wonderful thing. That being...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Aria Anime Screensaver (exe)
- Aria is a science fiction manga and anime. At the start of Aqua, a young woman named Akari arrives from Manhome formerly Earth to become a trainee gondolier with Aria Company, one of the three most prestigious water-guide companies in the city. A fascinating free screensaver of this interesting manga....
- Software downloads 2008-06-16
- Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?
- Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?just a technicality......but this isn't law in Canada, yet. It's just a bill at this point. Carry on...it will never beThis farce of a bill is the single most anti-consumer thing i ever saw in Canada.You can copy legally own media...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- The customer is not always right
- How many times have you heard the old adage, "The customer is always right"? If you're like me you just took it as an axiom, something that was beyond questioning. I think it's time for software developers and project managers to start questioning it. Now, I'm not...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
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