Re-use of existing Java code (Sudoku engine) This isn't so much about systems interop, as it is about code re-use and language interop. You've seen Sudoku, the number place puzzle. Wikipedia says that it was created by a US puzzle magazine, 

If your encyclopaedia told you David Beckham was an 18th Century Chinese goalkeeper, that the Duchess of Cornwall carries the title Her Royal Un-Lowness or that Robbie ... 

IN the wacky, sometimes wickedly funny, world of Wikipedia, the internet?s free encyclopedia, Tony Blair has been given the new middle names of Whoop-de Doo. 

We are all Alastair Campbells now. Spin doctors antennae whirred around this week when the volunteers who run Wikipedia discovered that staff of US senators and congressmen had been busy burnishing their bosses entries in the internet encyclopedia. 

Rock-n-Rolf writes In a previous story Slashdot reported that the German Wikipedia was threatened with injunction. The court has now ruled, as reported in German magazine Spiegel, and Wikipedia is likely to remain online (Babelfish translation). The disp 

Dr Occult writes BBC news is reporting misuse of Wikipedia by politicians for 'polishing' their images. The article on President Bush has been altered so many times - not just from within Congress - that Wikipedia's volunteer monitors have had to block f 

Online reference site Wikipedia says US Congress staff made partisan changes to a number of political biographies. 

Timeless way of Building by Christopher Alexander (Oxford Press) Check about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander 

I recently went over the entry in Wikipedia on text-to-speech, and it turns out to be a really good overview of the technolgogy. If you are interested in its history and the various components that would have to be handled by any TTS system, I highly 

We did our first Slashdot interview with Jimmy Wales back in 2001. We did another one in 2004. In 2005 we ran a feature article about Wikipedia's history. Now Wikipedia is in the news again, so this seems like a perfect time to make Jimmy Wales our first 

Online encyclopedia entries on U.S. senators and representatives are being rewritten by Congressional aides. 

Blog: We already know, of course, that politicians live primarily for re-election and typically view the truth as an impediment to the... 

There has been quite a bit of recent reporting on the recent troubles between Wikipedia and certain Congressional staffers. In response, abdulzis mentions that an RFC, Wikipedia's mediation method to deal with 'disharmonious users', has been opened to ta 

Nam June Paik passed away at 8:00pm EST on Sunday, January 29th, 2006. http://www.paikstudios.com/

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I have only been using wikipedia for a year or so and have so far found it to be a relatively good source of information (as long as you do not expect too much). Yesterday I found that there's a Yidish version of Wikipedia. It has got to be one of the ten 

Wikipedie je internetová mezinárodní encyklopedi... 

Blog: Congressional staffers have made more than 1,000 changes to entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the past six months,... 

worb writes According to the Lowell Sun, U.S. Rep Marty Meehan's staff has been heavily editing his Wikipedia bio, among other things removing criticisms. In total, more than one thousand Wikipedia edits in various articles have been traced back to congr 

While browsing to find from which version of IE it is possible to use XMLHttpRequest, I came across the wikipedia website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmlhttp). Where in the history t 

—is the tendency of programmers to disproportionately emphasize elegance in software at the expense of other requirements such as functionality, shipping schedule, and usability. Wikipedia
 

Curious about what Microsoft is up to after the Vista release this year? Here is what I got from a wiki source at (parts removed for brevity): Direct link 

Hamas je zkratka pro výraz Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Islámské hnutí odporu). Je to palestinská organizace, bojující proti okupaci palestinských území. Má těsné styky s Muslimským bratrstvem. Citujeme z encyklopedie Wikipedia a z internetových stránek televize Al Džazíra. 

Hamas je zkratka pro výraz Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Islámské hnutí odporu). Je to palestinská organizace, bojující proti okupaci palestinských území. Má těsné styky s Muslimským bratrstvem. Citujeme z encyklopedie Wikipedia a z internetových stránek televize Al Džazíra. 

Brushen writes Wikimedia Commons, a website built to be a repository of free, public domain, or GFDL images, sounds, and animations, has reached 400,000 files this week. Launched in September 2004 by the Wikimedia Foundation, the creators of Wikipedia, t 

20.2006, 08:40 AM. The Wikimedia Foundation reached a temporary settlement Friday with a court that allowed users to access the German-language version of the Web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia ... 

Wikipedia - the popular online encyclopedia was in the news just a month ago, for a fake biography posted by a man, naming a top journalist as having been involved in the Kennedy assassinations. 

Nemecká mutácia populárnej on-line encyklopédie Wikipedia sa na niekoľko dní musela na internetovom nebi odmlčať. Rozhodol o tom súd. Môže ísť o precedens do blízkej budúcnosti? 

The German Wikipedia site was taken down by court order this week because it mentioned the full name of a deceased Chaos Computer Club hacker, known as Tron. 

JAN. 20 9:48 AM ET The German version of Wikipedia returned to the Internet on Friday after three days offline, a blackout prompted by a lawsuit in which the parents of a dead hacker objected to the site s use of his real name. 

Blog: For the moment, the German version of Wikipedia is up and running, as part of the back and forth over a lawsuit against the... 

20.2006, 08:13 AM. The German-language version of the Web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia remained off-line Friday, following a court order barring the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation ... 

Doména Wikipedia.de na které je obvykle možno najít německou jazykovou varantu Wikipede, byla dle soudního rozhodnutí uzavřena. Žalobu podal známý hacker s pseudonymem Tron , kterým... 

(InfoWorld) - A German court has ordered the shutdown of the German-language version of Wikipedia, the multilingual open-access encyclopedia available on the Internet, after the family of a deceased ha 

TheEagleCD writes Wikipedia.de, the German version of the popular Wikipedia Encyclopedia, is currently closed due to a German court order. A detailed account of the current controversy [en.wikipedia.org] is available, the short version is that the family 

Prístup na nemeckú verziu známej internetovej encyklopédie Wikipedia cez adresu www.wikipedia.de v posledných dňoch nefunguje. 

Blog: A new Web site provides a virtual tour of New York City using the Google Maps application programming interface, Wikipedia... 

Wikipedia včera oslavovala narodeniny. Od 15. januára 2001 ubehlo presne päť rokov, čo zvádzalo na bilancovanie. 

An anonymous reader writes Tim Ryan, a 21 year veteran entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin, was fired yesterday after an investigation revealed multiple instances of his incorporating unattributed paragraphs from other sources. This ca 

Po známé free encyklopedii Wikipedia, do které může psát a upravovat příspěvky kdokoliv z registrovaných uživatelů příchází podobný projekt zaměřený na design -

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Souboj mezi tradicí, silou, otevřeností a pelotonem, asi tak by bylo možno popsat válku encyklopedií na internetu. Trojice králů - Britannica, Encarta a Wikipedia - je z velké dálky sledována dalšími hráči. Zato boj mezi nejsilnějšími 

- Na začiatku bol systém wiki - z Havajčiny čulý - a každý, kto chce, môže sa podieľať. Projekt neziskovej internetovej encyklopédie pokračuje.  

Praha - Souboj mezi tradicí, silou, otevřeností, asi tak by bylo možno popsat válku encyklopedií na internetu. Trojice králů - Britannica, Encarta a Wikipedia - je z velké dálky sledována dalšími hráči. 

Ve Wikipedii jsem rozšířila heslo dedukce http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedukce 

Mitch Ratcliffe: Wikipedia should forget about being an encyclopedia, because the form is broken. How to fix it? For starters, let's see more transparency. Wed Jan 11 11:08:00 PST 2006 

This is an interesting walk down memory lane... If you know what a bluebox is or what 2600hz signifies, I'm sure you'll enjoy taking a look. Who knew Steve Jobs and The Woz used to make and sell blueboxes before Apple? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wik 

Over the weekend I was chatting with a developer friend of mine who told me about an algorithm he examined in one of his Computer Science classes at college. To quote the link he later sent me from Wikipedia: Given n men and n women, where each person has 

Also: Airport seeks ban on free airline Wi-Fi. 

MacBook Pro už na Wikipedii V tomto je jej čaro. Može do nej prispieť každý a to aj ihneď po ohlásení nového produktu 

An anonymous reader writes China has banned access to Wikipedia for the third time, outraging students and intellectuals. From the article: The latest blocking of the website, the third shutdown of the site in China in the past two years, has now conti