B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s (6)
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WmHBlair writes "Flightglobal has a report about the upgrades being made to the B-2A Stealth Bomber, which include Pentium class processors, JOVIAL code rewritten in C, and fibre channel hard drives. The Register, as usual, makes its usual light of this event with a tongue-in-cheek news item noting that the upgrade drags Stealth Bomber IT systems into the '90s."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Protocol Buffers: Our open source data interchange format (62)
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Posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs ManagerToday we have something special for all you coders: we're releasing one of our most widely-used internal development tools. We call it "Protocol Buffers." It's the way we encode almost any sort of structured information which needs to be passed across the network or stored on disk. We thought Protocol Buffers might be useful to other people, too, so we've decided to release it as open source software. ...
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Devlin D said:
Very interesting solution. Unfortunately this is really only useful for massive applications but it is quite elegant nonetheless. Necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps this is why Google comes up with so much cool stuff.
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pmuellr said:
binary data structures. Not bad, but not sure when I'd use it at this point. support for C++ but not C. Sad.
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Dana said:
Hoorah for Protocol Buffers.
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snowland said:
昨天boss问我是否看到过这个。。。
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Marcel said:
This sounds very interesting!
Laconica: Can Open Source Save Twitter? (8)
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Lots of people are addicted to microblogging service Twitter - including substantial chunks of some open source communities. There are a fair number of Ruby on Rails developers twittering these days, for example. But Twitter's scaling and reliability issues lately have many people wondering whether it's time to look for an alternative. Identi.ca, backed by open source package Laconica, wants to be that alternative. There's a lot to like about Laconica from a design standpoint. ...
Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades (12)
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the brown guy writes "An 18 year old high school student named Omar Kahn is charged with 69 felonies for hacking into a school computer and modifying his grades among other things. He changed his C, D and F grades to As, and changed 12 other students grades as well. By installing a remote access program on the schools server Kahn was able to also change his AP scores, distribute test answer keys, and could ...
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Ryan said:
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaahn!
