http://alterslash.org the unofficial SlashDot digest This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/4AIl2Jucu2w/ Here’s the straight-talk version:“Welcome to NASA. We’re going to send you into space, but this involves sitting you atop something that’s basically a big stick of explosives. http://alterslash.org/#Early_Abort_of_Ares_I_Rocket_Would_Kill_Crew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/MmgW5diqk9o/ ”…interview with security expert Joanna Rutkowska (which is unfortunately split over 9 pages)”Why oh why did they split Joanna into 9 pages?! Thats so cruel!Also, First Post http://alterslash.org/#Security_Threats_3_Levels_Beyond_Kernel_Rootkits http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/SXu3qJPgwHc/ When comming from supermarkets, i believe the correct term for a bag of blood is a black pudding. http://alterslash.org/#Brazil_Demands_Repatriation_of_UK_Hazardous_Waste http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/XkbkGdeOLgc/ Do people even know what they want from a partner?Yeah, they do. 99.9% of women want “a good man who loves to laugh and is fun and just an ordinary guy.”I’m a divorced man in a small (~100,000) town and have used online dating sites off-and-on for about five years—mostly Plenty Of Fish, but also LavaLife and OkCupid. http://alterslash.org/#Of_Science_and_Choice_In_Online_Dating http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/RtNTjn3ZhYo/ 100 years ago, we did not have the technology to replicate information as we do now. Hence there was little public demand to be able to do so. http://alterslash.org/#We_Were_Smarter_About_Copyright_Law_100_Years_Ago http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/062S25cU1X8/ Looks like game developers have finally grown big enough to start considering building their own RIAA/MPAA. I just want to say thanks to the people who only buy games that they have heard of through commercials of or only buy sequels. http://alterslash.org/#Publishers_Pressuring_MS_To_Push_Indies_From_Xbox_Live http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/02z3dxvprgI/ You’re allowed to hold any idiot opinion you want in the USA. You are not allowed to express it on the job. http://alterslash.org/#Online_Forum_Leads_To_Hostile_Workplace_Lawsuit http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/ykHroDZZgY8/ Congrats on Red Hat reaching the big league. I’ve got a couple of mates who work for Red Hat, and they say business is booming in the downturn, because they’re picking up a lot of business from people looking to save money through Red Hat’s Open Source-plus-support way of doing things. http://alterslash.org/#Red_Hat_Is_Now_Part_of_the_S_P_500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/yb0--VLIQBc/ All of the wireless carriers, when you boil it down, offer the same thing, dial tone over a radio.At some point, in any competitive environment you have to be able to differentiate yourself from the other carrier, so really what are the options? Coverage? http://alterslash.org/#Verizon_Offers_Compromise_In_Exclusivity_Debate http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/6LXFudcviNc/ A Microsoft spokesperson told me that customers will need to buy a SharePoint server, which ranges from $4,400 plus CALs, or $41,000 with all CALs included, if they want to share documents created using the online version of Office 2010.” I am so happy to be working in an office free of the MS strangle hold. http://alterslash.org/#The_Hidden_Costs_of_Microsoft_s_Free_Office_Online http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/36plPQv9Kkg/ This code looks right? struct sock *sk = tun->sk; // initialize sk with tun->sk … if (!tun)  return POLLERR; // if tun is NULL return error So, he’s dereferencing tun, and then checking if tun was NULL? http://alterslash.org/#New_Linux_Kernel_Flaw_Allows_Null_Pointer_Exploits http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/dPoXDe0H_6Q/ Klein: I really was panicking because […] the government knew everything and probably knew my name, but I didn’t have any publicity.  IDGNS: The media merit a full chapter (entitled: ‘Going Public vs. Media Chickens’). What happened there?  Klein: […] They were the first entity I’d given all the documents to. http://alterslash.org/#The_NSA_Wiretapping_Story_Nobody_Wanted http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/vNFpVk7tkZY/ You see a lot of kiddies complaining along the lines of “a rave shouldn’t be illegal”. But in britain, it is. Yes, really. http://alterslash.org/#UK_Police_Raid_Party_After_Seeing_All_Night_Tag_On_Facebook http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/wFeYjN0v2pQ/ Sure, SpaceX is behind the schedule with the Falcon 9 and recently lost a customer ( http://spacefellowship.com/2009/07/13/spacex-lost-falcon-9-customer/ ). But if we look on the bright side, what SpaceX have accomplished so far, took two superpowers and a brewing cold war last time, for example the Merlin engine is the first new engine designed in the US since the 60’s , they have launched Falcon 1 successfully recently ( http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20090715 ) and pushes forward with the Dragon spacecraft ( http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php ). http://alterslash.org/#Beyond_the_X_PRIZE_mdash_a_1_5B_Commercial_Lunar_Market http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/mJxbMoyzte4/ More weapons, combinations, drugs, little things, cool story, and sheer fun, like in, you know, System Shock 1?? ;)I find it annoying, that BioShock is so dumbed down. http://alterslash.org/#em_BioShock_em_Creator_Levine_Teases_Next_Project http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/bkUUpy8aABg/ on the show? The crew gets into a horrible accident that requires them to get voice box transplants, and Bender’s voice gets erased and he is programmed with a different one.This is almost as bad in a TV series when an actor or actress is replaced with a different one, and it usually happens to Soap Operas and really Cheesy TV shows. http://alterslash.org/#Futurama_Voices_Could_Be_Recast http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Alterslash/~3/o25D6qsK0kU/ that’ll shut-up the conspiracy theorists. OK, so maybe not. http://alterslash.org/#NASA_s_LRO_Captures_High_Res_Pics_of_Apollo_Landing_Sites