From the article: 'A number of significant kernel changes had went on between these Ubuntu Linux releases including the Completely Fair Scheduler, the SLUB allocator, tickless kernel support, etc.

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Today's story on a Microsoft device that helps law enforcement gather forensic evidence from a crime suspect's computer has garnered lots of attention and raised questions about how exactly it works and what it's able to do. Update, 5:10 p.m. I just got a response from Microsoft.

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Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

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But Mr. Malda could not help using the discussion about Idle to address problems at Digg, and what he sees as the flaws of the community news model.

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Within the Church of Scientology, you are taught that Scientology is the one and only solution to all mankind's problems, and during this narrow window of opportunity in mankind's history it is possible to "clear the planet" (ie give everybody auditing) and save humanity from its …

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From the article: Social site Digg, once the shining example of what social media was supposed to be, saw its 2007 traffic in a steady downward spiral.

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Have fun in your little made-up universe where the government comes to round you up and you manage to fight it off.

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It all started in 1997, in a time before there was Gmail. Slashdot founder and editor Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, wanted a non-college-affiliated e-mail address, so he simply registered his own domain name.

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The Slashdot Firehose is a way for users to participate in the Slashdot editorial process. You are able to see all the content submitted to Slashdot: from RSS Feeds and user submissions, to journal entries and successful completed Slashdot stories.

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osting companies lie. They convince you that as long as you stay below your bandwidth and storage quota, you're site will stay up. The truth is, nearly every hosting company will take down your site if it takes up "too many resources", even if that is well within your quota.

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He wants to know if we can do better? Well, he can always come to Newsvine!! See the comments here.

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In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell cited the "Rule of 150." The rule states that 150 is the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a "genuinely efficient work relationship." At that size, orders can be implemented and unruly behavior controlled on the ba …

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Interesting supposition out on Slashdot this morning that the entire take down process at Digg last week was really caused by lawyers not understanding how to deal with people.

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starexplorer2001 writes "It seems that new AT&T/BellSouth/Cingular merger might actually have some benefits, specifically in the area of pushing the technological envelope. Developers are close to releasing a cellphone device that is implanted into your molars.

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From Slashdot: Several readers let us know about a little problem with presidential hopeful John McCain's MySpace page. Looks as though some staffer didn't read the fine print of the "credit" clause when selecting a template for the page.

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Slashdot is working on Firehose, a feature which will enable Slashdot users to vote on stories.

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Following on the heels of a man proposing via a Dashboard widget, CmdrTaco (creator of Slashdot) decided to propose to his girlfriend in the most embarrassing way: on Slashdot.

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Yahoo! recently shut down its news discussion boards while it rethinks its approach to eliminate trolling and to roll in new "community features".

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Intersting discussion on Microsoft hating.

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"Today, Mozilla made public bug #360493, which exposes Firefox's Password Manager on many public sites. The flaw derives from Firefox's willingness to supply the username and password stored on one page on a domain to another page on a domain.

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"After almost a year and a half of public development, the Optimus OLED keyboard is nearing completion. According to the project blog, pre-orders for the Optimus-103 will start on December 12.

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Here's a detailed tip on surviving a Digg, Slashdot, Reedit or Newsvine frontpage traffic without the help of your web host. It involves some tricks to get away from a crashing server.

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Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint.

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What happens when your website gets linked from the big boys? Fifty five personal accounts on receiving wanted and unwanted traffic spikes, each one containing technical advice, traffic statistics or pageview graphs.

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The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

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