Comment Re:Not a Michael Moore Fan (Score 1) 987
What part exactly do you disagree with, that he shouldn't be lauded for his action or that people shouldn't take a stand for freedom of speech?
Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked 334
Ponca City writes "The Telegraph reports that an online dating profile created by Julian Assange in 2006 has been unearthed from OKCupid disclosing that the WikiLeaks editor sought 'spirited, erotic' women 'from countries that have sustained political turmoil.' Writing under the pseudonym of British science fiction author Harry Harrison, Assange described himself as a 'passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual.' Assange said he was seeking a 'siren for [a] love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy' adding that he was 'directing a consuming, dangerous human rights project which is, as you might expect, male dominated' and added enigmatically: 'I am DANGER, ACHTUNG.' Among Assange's listed interests were the 'structure of reality' and 'chopping up human brains' – although he added the caveat '(neuroscience background)' lest the latter put off potential admirers. 'I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil,' Assange wrote. 'Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane. OK. Not only women!'"
Comment Reason it's bone soup (Score 1) 108
"It was the first discovery of chicken soup in Chinese archaeological history. Unfortunately one of the archeologists on the dig was feeling feeling peckish and gnawed every bit of chicken from the bones. He will pay with his life."
Liu Daiyun of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology as saying.
Archaeologists Find 2,400-Year-Old Soup 108
Chinese archaeologists have discovered a sealed bronze pot containing what they believe is a batch of 2,400-year-old bone soup. The pot was dug up near the ancient capital of Xian. Liu Daiyun of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archeology says, "It's the first discovery of bone soup in Chinese archaeological history. The discovery will play an important role in studying the eating habits and culture of the Warring States Period (475-221BC)." No word on if the archaeologists also found the accompanying ancient crackers.
Comment Not a Michael Moore Fan (Score 4, Insightful) 987
I am not a Michael Moore fan, but he should be lauded for the action. Hopefully others will follow Mr. Moore's lead and take a stand for freedom of speech.
Comment Troll'd (Score 3) 189
Comment Re:Nothing to see here (Score 2) 319
Every time you visit a website, there is the potential to track what you looked at and how long you stayed there. From this data, all sorts of extrapolations can be made.
This is happening to all of us every day, it's just not as obviously creepy as a fed following you around in an adult bookstore.
This is happening to all of us every day, it's just not as obviously creepy as a fed following you around in an adult bookstore.
Comment Nothing to see here (Score 5, Informative) 319
While Free6.com included a notice warning that the posting of “child pornography or other illegal material” would be reported to “local authorities,” Burdick had site administrators add a line noting that, “Free6.com may disclose these communications to the authorities at its discretion.”
Site says to stop posting inappropriate, illegal material. Site warns that it will report such content to authorities. Site acts on threat.
Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews 240
rsk writes "The first time I came across fake reviews on Amazon, it was hilarious. Using Amazon's Window Shop app, I came across a great category, 'Peculiar Products,' and was more than happy to look through it. Almost every one of the products I found on the list (Uranium Ore, 1 Gallon of Milk, Parent Child Test, Fresh Whole Rabbit) were fake, with thousands of reviews on them. As a shopper, I wasn't aware of how easy it was to apparently fake product reviews and it bothers me. When I'm shopping, the first (and a lot of times only) place I visit is Amazon to read the reviews if I'm in the market for something. I don't expect the reviews to be the word of God, but I do assume a certain level of legitimacy for most of them. While this won't affect my use of Amazon (especially not at this time of the year) I would like to bubble this up to Amazon's attention so some time is spent on improving the quality of the reviews."
Comment How about a link to the actual article? (Score 1) 200
how about it boys?
Comment Re:what's been interesting (Score 1) 810
Doesn't every government do this, if they can?
Comment Re:Microsoft releases Silverlight 5, nobody cares (Score 1) 213
Silverlight 1 was awful, but now Silverlight 4 is pretty good. I've been developing web applications for over ten years professionally. As I mentioned in a previous post there are a lot of things you can so in SL that you can't do very well in either Flash or HTML5. Your comment shows that you are pretty disconnected from reality and not privy to what corporate customers and end users are really looking to see in web applications these days.
Comment Re:Silverlight as a native application ?? (Score 1) 213
Not true. We're using Silverlight and C# to build WP7 apps. You have the option of using C or C++ as well.
Comment Re:Silverlight as a native application ?? (Score 1) 213
That isn't correct. You can write native code for WP7. I am not sure where that rumor got started. Even so, there are probably a handful of situations that benefit from native code like games, audio processing, and other graphics intensive applications. There is going to be little or no benefit from native code in most other apps.
Having written both Android and iPhone apps, I can tell you which platform I prefer to develop for. Apple's toolchain is less than awful. Additionally, I doubt the fact that the applications were written in Obj-C had any effect on the performance of the app.
Having written both Android and iPhone apps, I can tell you which platform I prefer to develop for. Apple's toolchain is less than awful. Additionally, I doubt the fact that the applications were written in Obj-C had any effect on the performance of the app.
Comment Re:I argue differently (Score 1) 213
Uh, Java is Open Source,
Sorry, OP is right.
Regarding standardization, we just had a client come to us with a pretty nice AJAX application and told us to rebuild it in Silverlight. See the client realizes that it's the user experience that's the most important, not the tech that the app is built with. Simply put, there are things that we can so in Silverllight right now that just can't be done well in HTML5 or even Flash. Conversely, there are apps that will work better in Flash and or HTML 5 than Silverlight.
Also I could build the same application in HTM5, Flash and Silverlight. Dollars to donuts, with either Flash or SL, it's going to be more maintainable than HTML5. I am working on an AJAX project right and have done many, so my previous comment is based on personal development experiences.
