Comment Jeez... (Score 2, Interesting) 767
How the hell is this news for nerds? How many times has the Palin or Bush or Wikipedia pages been defaced? Don't recall it being trumpeted here...
At least a pretense of impartiality would be welcome...
Comment Re:What about the reverse? (Score 1) 190
um wouldn't that just be an LED?
Comment Re:So it doesn't do anything yet. (Score 1) 87
Yes because 250k is going to completely pay for 3 years of aviation and materials science work. Less than the cost of a single small assembly line built aircraft. We should have thought of this earlier. I am sure companies would be willing to put up a cool 2 million for passenger jets. We've been doing it wrong.
Comment Re:100k is pathetic. (Score 1) 117
Um, this has been the case forever. It's just that now the news isn't necessarily how the liberal establishment old-media news wants it to be.
Choice is good.
Submission + - Creepy Stalking App Explained by Author (thinq.co.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Creepy, a package described as a 'geolocation information aggregator,' is turning heads in privacy circles, but should people be worried? Yiannis Kakavas explains why he developed his scary stalking application.
Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows — with a Mac OS X port in the works — that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It's remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows — with a Mac OS X port in the works — that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It's remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
Submission + - Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel (allcarselectric.com) 3
thecarchik writes: About two years ago BBC's Top Gear aired a test drive of the then relatively new Tesla Roadster. In the particular episode, Tesla Roadsters are depicted as suffering several critical “breakdowns” during track driving. Host Jeremy Clarkson concludes the episode by saying that in the real world the Roadster "doesn’t seem to work"
Tesla claims that the breakdowns were staged, making most of Top Gear'(TM)s remarks about the Roadster untrue. Tesla also states that it can prove Top Gear’s tests were falsified due to the recordings of its cars’ onboard data-loggers.
What's Tesla asking for in the lawsuit? Tesla simply wants Top Gear to stop rebroadcasting the particular episode and to correct the record.
Tesla claims that the breakdowns were staged, making most of Top Gear'(TM)s remarks about the Roadster untrue. Tesla also states that it can prove Top Gear’s tests were falsified due to the recordings of its cars’ onboard data-loggers.
What's Tesla asking for in the lawsuit? Tesla simply wants Top Gear to stop rebroadcasting the particular episode and to correct the record.
Submission + - Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA? (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Russians have published two amazing photos of Earth using their new Elektro-L satellite, in 30,000km high orbit around the equator. The quality is stunning, and they look quite different from NASA's Earth images. But why are they different? And are they better than NASA's?
Comment Re:Warning! Prospective alert. (Score 1) 537
In Chernobyl 28 workers died of acute radiation poisoning within weeks. Within the first few years another 15 first responders died of direct effect cancers, thyroid cancer etc. 100,000 people were within the radiation zone and the rates of cancer among the population are 1% above normal. Of the 4000 people who died of cancer from the elevated radiation level population we can only attribute 30 of those deaths to the increased radiation level based on general population cancer rates.
So It was not a disaster in slow motion. The majority of the deaths from Chernobyl happened within the first week. Deaths in the first week in Japan, 0.
Comment Re:Because syntax is _everything_. (Score 1) 444
I was implying that as you progressed in your career you would learn more than your starting language and stop being confused by the different syntax's used. Once you pick up 5 or 10 and can filter what was once noise all functional languages start looking the same.
Comment Re:Pry my curly brackets from my cold dead hands (Score 1) 444
Blocks: I don't care how you denote them but DENOTE them. Seems that language developers these days are trying to reinvent fortran. Not exactly the model of fast error free programming.
For scanning speed I would prefer a single character bracket, quote, parenthesis whatever vs multi character tags. But as long as there is some opening and closing for which I can receive syntax errors rather than silent bugs I am happy.
Comment Re:Because syntax is _everything_. (Score 1) 444
No, all functional languages are basically the same.
Syntax is 5%.
95% of understanding a program is well labeled functions and data structures.
Syntax only matters early in your career when everything is still greek, even your own language.
Comment Re:hahah what? (Score 1) 444
There are more than 5 natively compiled languages. You lose.
Comment Misleading subject. (Score 0, Flamebait) 541
Hardly cleared. Sounds like further investigation is needed (and will be performed).
The positive out of all of this is that the "skeptic" side is finally being heard instead of being completely ignored as heretical by the clergy of the Church of Global warming. There's way too much money to be made in all this carbon/green stuff for it ever to completely go away, but at least now we may be more inclined to focus on immediate and concrete issues rather than a wild goose chase.
Comment Re:Sea Ice (Score 1) 654
Link didn't show up.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/
Comment Sea Ice (Score 0, Redundant) 654
This is a great page to follow information on sea ice trends at both poles.
Just say "no" to the religion of AGW... there are much more pressing problems to solve here.
