Comment Re:Yeah...but (Score 1) 1303
If you had to sell something to pay for the move than the cost was greater than $0 dollars.
Comment Re:Are you rich? Is your dad a senator? (Score 1) 1059
Unfortunately the NDAA doesn't need care if you are a citizen for indefinite detention, see Section 1031.
Comment Re:VS (Score 1) 433
It's actually more likely to build resistance - because USians pay for their medicine, they are much less likely to complete a course of antibiotics.
I disagree. Antibiotics aren't a recurring prescription. When you get the script it is for the full course. So you have to pay for the complete treatment or get nothing. There is no in-between.
Comment Re:china copys us stuff and pass it off as there o (Score 5, Informative) 373
For example most microwaves are missing the ability to have constant output with variable power level. Now microwaves duty cycle unless you by the higher end Panasonic with "Inverter Technology". What was once standard component is now a differentiating feature for higher price models.
Comment Re:Hypocrites (Score 1) 696
Almost all of the stuff in the released documents were things that would have been reported in newspapers 50 years ago. But in this age of embedded journalism, military officers working as media pundits The People is missing the key ingredient to preventing war, understanding how terrible it is.
Thank you, I glad to read that someone else understands.
Comment Re:Um, isn't java code GPL? (Score 1) 675
That is the current main use of Ada, but commercial software could benefit from some of those good practices.
Comment Re:At Last! (Score 1) 110
BTW. I filed last year taxes with the IRS using this feature. See the free file fillable forms options. The forms do a lot of the basic math calculations also.
The LHC Is Back Online 123
medea and several other readers noted that the LHC came back online early this morning. Here is the tweet from CERN announcing the milestone. As we discussed a few weeks ago, CERN plans to run the LHC at half power or less through 2011.
Comment Re:Take the subway - or campaign for one to exist. (Score 1) 750
Actually horse were quite a problem for cities because of manure disposal and dead horses in the street during the industrial revolution. Cars ended up being the solution, not to imply that we still don't deal with a pile of shit from cities today.
Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
Comment Re:Idiotic. (Score 1) 316
It's planned but it's behind schedule and over budget. Also, reports in May 2009 are placing expectations that the GPS constellation will fall below 24 satellites with a possibility of loss of accuracy.
Comment Re:What did you expect? (Score 1) 427
Jury nullification exist in the US. Only juries are not told that they have the option and defense is not allowed to educate the jury about the option.
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."
Comment Re:Impossible to operate? (Score 1) 478
How does a piece of bread dropped from the sky by a bid or airplane get on a busbar inside a building?
Comment Re:This kind of upsets me (Score 1) 652
If that means I get my "stimulus" money back.
