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10 Business Lessons I Learned From Playing D&D
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/XzqL9speBXc/10-Business-Lessons-I-Learned-From-Playing-DD
Esther Schindler writes "Those hours you spent rolling dice in your youth weren't wasted according to my 10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons. Playing fantasy role playing games did more than teach the rules of combat or proper behavior in a dragon's lair. D&D can instruct you in several skills that can help your career. Such as: 'One spell, used well, can be more powerful than an entire book full of spells' and 'It's better to out-smart an orc than to fight one.'" What other wisdom have you gained from your time sequestered with various RPGs?<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1746234/10-Business-Lessons-I-Learned-From-Playing-DD?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1746234"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1746234/10-Business-Lessons-I-Learned-From-Playing-DD?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/jLtbILjvQmw/Examining-the-HTML-5-Video-Codec-Debate
Ars Technica has a great breakdown of the codec debate for the HTML 5 video element. Support for the new video element seems to be split into two main camps, Ogg Theora and H.264, and the inability to find a solution has HTML 5 spec editor Ian Hickson throwing in the towel. "Hickson outlined the positions of each major browser vendor and explained how the present impasse will influence the HTML 5 standard. Apple and Google favor H.264 while Mozilla and Opera favor Ogg Theora. Google intends to ship its browser with support for both codecs, which means that Apple is the only vendor that will not be supporting Ogg. 'After an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for and in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship,' Hickson wrote. 'I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs would have been required, and have instead left the matter undefined.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1759225/Examining-the-HTML-5-Video-Codec-Debate?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1759225"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1759225/Examining-the-HTML-5-Video-Codec-Debate?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/HXONsveSWfE/Beautiful-Security
brothke writes "Books that collect chapters from numerous expert authors often fail to do more than be a collection of disjointed ideas. Simply combining expert essays does not always make for an interesting, cohesive read. Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think is an exception to that and is definitely worth a read. The book's 16 chapters provide an interesting overview to the current and future states of security, risk and privacy. Each chapter is written by an established expert in the field and each author brings their own unique insights and approach to information security." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/137217/Beautiful-Security?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/137217"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/137217/Beautiful-Security?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/ijM4cLx9hng/Railway-Workers-Get-Daily-Smile-Scans
More than 500 workers at Japan's, Keihin Electric Express Railway, must have their faces scanned each morning to determine their optimum smile. The "smile scan" analyzes a smile based on facial characteristics, from lip curves and eye movements to wrinkles. After the program scans you, it produces a smile rating that ranges from zero to 100 depending on the estimated potential of your biggest smile. If your number is sufficient, you can go about your day grinning like a maniac. If your smile number is too low the computer will give you a message such as, "lift up your mouth corners" or "you still look too serious." Every morning employees receive a print out of their daily smile which they are expected to keep with them throughout the day.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1722225/Railway-Workers-Get-Daily-Smile-Scans?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1722225"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1722225/Railway-Workers-Get-Daily-Smile-Scans?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/c8xfhbGVJFg/Successful-Test-of-Superconducting-Plasma-Rocket-Engine
xp65 writes to mention that Ad Astra has successfully tested their VX-200 plasma engine at full power in superconducting conditions, the first time such an engine has been tested at those power levels. "The VX-200 engine is the first flight-like prototype of the VASIMR® propulsion system, a new high-power plasma-based rocket, initially studied by NASA and now being developed privately by Ad Astra. VASIMR® engines could enable space operations far more efficiently than today's chemical rockets and ultimately they could also greatly speed up robotic and human transit times for missions to Mars and beyond."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1556208/Successful-Test-of-Superconducting-Plasma-Rocket-Engine?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1556208"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1556208/Successful-Test-of-Superconducting-Plasma-Rocket-Engine?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/R9CG6-TWbXQ/Nanopillar-Solar-May-Cost-10x-Less-Than-Silicon
Al writes "A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new kind of flexible solar cell that could be far cheaper to make than conventional silicon photovoltaics. The cells consist of an array of 500-nanometer-high cadmium sulfide pillars printed on top of an aluminum foil — the material surrounding the pillars absorbs light and releases electrons, while the pillars themselves transport the electrons to an electrical circuit. The closely packed pillars trap light between them, helping the surrounding material absorb more. This means the electrons also have a very short distance to travel through the pillars, so there are fewer chances of their getting trapped at defects and its possible to use low-quality, less expensive materials. '"You won't know the cost until you do this using a roll-to-roll process," says lead researchers Ali Javey. "But if you can do it, the cost could be 10 times less than what's used to make [crystalline] silicon panels."'"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1545213/Nanopillar-Solar-May-Cost-10x-Less-Than-Silicon?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1545213"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1545213/Nanopillar-Solar-May-Cost-10x-Less-Than-Silicon?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/wILEQt42UYA/If-You-Live-By-Free-You-Will-Die-By-Free
Hugh Pickens writes "Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban writes that the problem with companies who have built their business around free is that the more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top. '"They will be Facebook to your Myspace, or Myspace to your Friendster or Google to your Yahoo," writes Cuban. "Someone out there with a better idea will raise a bunch of money, give it away for free, build scale and charge less to reach the audience."' Cuban says that even Google, who lives and dies by free, knows that 'at some point your Black Swan competitor will appear and they will kick your ass' and that is exactly why Google invests in everything and anything they possibly can that they believe can create another business they can depend on in the future searching for the 'next big Google thing.' Cuban says that for any company that lives by Free, their best choice is to run the company as profitably as possible, focusing only on those things that generate revenue and put cash in the bank. '"When you succeed with Free, you are going to die by Free. Your best bet is to recognize where you are in your company's lifecycle and maximize your profits rather than try to extend your stay at the top," writes Cuban. "Like every company in the free space, your lifecycle has come to its conclusion. Don't fight it. Admit it. Profit from it."'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1541225/If-You-Live-By-Free-You-Will-Die-By-Free?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1541225"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1541225/If-You-Live-By-Free-You-Will-Die-By-Free?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/YCwbzRZYC3c/The-Mathletes-and-the-Miley-Photoshop
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton's essay this week is about "A Tennessee man is arrested for possessing a picture of Miley Cyrus's face superimposed on a nude woman's body. In a survey that I posted on the Web, a majority of respondents said the man violated the law -- except for respondents who say they were good at math in school, who as a group answered the survey differently from everyone else." Continue on to see how.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1429208/The-Mathletes-and-the-Miley-Photoshop?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1429208"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1429208/The-Mathletes-and-the-Miley-Photoshop?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/yrktzt8KTZ0/Andreessens-Secret-Plan-To-Find-the-Next-Netscape
Hugh Pickens writes "CNN reports that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen has raised $300 million to launch a new venture capital firm that aims to reinvent the way money is doled out in Silicon Valley while reflecting Andreessen's unwavering view that the Internet will soon take over all aspects of our lives and that online services won't merely supplement your TV viewing or newspaper reading, but will replace those activities altogether. Andreessen, on the board of Facebook and an angel investor in Twitter, says that technology moves so quickly that only the young can keep up with what the latest stuff can do. 'So the 24-year-old coming out of Stanford will have a view of technology that the 29-year-old — who was 24 just five years ago — would never think of,' say Andreessen. 'We love that kind of thing.' Andreessen thinks that when companies are acquired too quickly, innovation slows down, and he says that YouTube might have come up with a path to profitability faster if it wasn't a part of Google. 'It is hard for big ones to out-execute up-and-comers,' Andreessen says. 'Our secret plan is to watch what gets acquired and fund the next company. A good template is to fund companies doing whichever the next-generation product would have been.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1418225/Andreessens-Secret-Plan-To-Find-the-Next-Netscape?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1418225"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1418225/Andreessens-Secret-Plan-To-Find-the-Next-Netscape?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/zPnRU8lHHs4/WikiLeaks-Daniel-Schmitt-Speaks
Lars Sobiraj submitted an interview with Daniel Schmitt of WikiLeaks. "He encourages all readers and warns his opponents — WikiLeaks has the means to make our society better, to create a world which stands united and strong against abuse — locally and nationally as well as globally. Modern, fast, world-wide technology makes it possible. In the interview, Daniel explains in detail how this will be done, with the help of WikiLeaks and all its supporters."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1321227/WikiLeaks-Daniel-Schmitt-Speaks?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/1321227"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/1321227/WikiLeaks-Daniel-Schmitt-Speaks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/GB0dptZ8UDc/Open-Source-Search-Engine-Benchmarks
Sean Fargo writes "This article has benchmarks for the latest versions of Lucene, Xapian, zettair, sqlite, and sphinx. It tests them by indexing Twitter and Medical Journals, providing comparative system stats and relevancy scores. All the benchmark code is open source."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/131243/Open-Source-Search-Engine-Benchmarks?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/131243"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/131243/Open-Source-Search-Engine-Benchmarks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/LxF_KKcUZlc/Goldman-Sachs-Trading-Source-Code-In-the-Wild
Hangtime writes "The world's most valuable source code could be in the wild. According to a report by Reuters, a Russian immigrant and former Goldman Sachs developer named Sergey Aleynikov was picked up at Newark Airport on July 4th by the FBI on charges of industrial espionage. According to the complaint, Sergey, prior to his early June exit from Goldman, copied, encrypted and uploaded source code inferred to be the code used by Goldman Sachs to process in real-time (micro-seconds) trades between multiple equity and commodity platforms. While trying to cover his tracks, the system backed up a series of bash commands so he was unable to erase his history, which would later give him away to Goldman and the authorities. So the question is: where are the 32MB of encrypted files that Sergey uploaded to a German server?<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/0353217/Goldman-Sachs-Trading-Source-Code-In-the-Wild?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/06/0353217"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/0353217/Goldman-Sachs-Trading-Source-Code-In-the-Wild?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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With budget cuts in the works for everyone these days, NASA has decided to float an alternate plan for returning to the moon that is just a little bit cheaper than the current proposal. Of course, the new option would be very reminiscent of the old Apollo space capsule instead of the tricked out shuttle currently planned. "Officially, the space agency is still on track with a 4-year-old plan to spend $35 billion to build new rockets and return astronauts to the moon in several years. However, a top NASA manager is floating a cut-rate alternative that costs around $6.6 billion. This cheaper option is not as powerful as NASA's current design with its fancy new rockets, the people-carrying Ares I and cargo-lifting Ares V. But the cut-rate plan would still get to the moon."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2345248/NASA-Hedges-Their-Bets-On-Return-To-Moon?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/05/2345248"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2345248/NASA-Hedges-Their-Bets-On-Return-To-Moon?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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bfire writes to tell us that marketing firm uSocial has decided to apply a new monetization scheme to the Twitter service by providing packages of followers for purchase. "According to the firm, a single Twitter follower could be worth $0.10 a month. It is selling followers in various packages, starting at 1,000 for $87, which is delivered in seven days, and going all the way up to 100,000 followers at a cost of $3,479, delivered over a year." This is just the latest in a number of different exploits and problems of the Twitter universe as individuals try to subvert a popular tool into a self serving device.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2151220/uSocial-Sells-Twitter-Followers-By-the-Thousand?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/05/2151220"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2151220/uSocial-Sells-Twitter-Followers-By-the-Thousand?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/c65uPKz8a7g/Bugattis-Latest-Veyron-Most-Ridiculous-Car-on-the-Planet
Wired has an amusing writeup that accurately captures the most recent ridiculous addition to Bugatti's automobile catalog. The $2.1 million Veyron sports over 1,000 horsepower, a 16-cylinder engine, and a top speed of 245 mph. The guilty conscience comes for free. "That same cash-filled briefcase could buy seven Ferrari 599s or every single 2009 model Mercedes. You could snap up a top-shelf Maybach and employ a chauffeur until well past the apocalypse. Hell, in this economy, $2.1 million is probably enough to make you a one-man special-interest group with some serious Washington clout."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2122237/Bugattis-Latest-Veyron-Most-Ridiculous-Car-on-the-Planet?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/05/2122237"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2122237/Bugattis-Latest-Veyron-Most-Ridiculous-Car-on-the-Planet?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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