Comment Re:good bye ustream (Score 1) 60
ironically, I'm seeing less ads on youtube right now than ustream.
Comment good bye ustream (Score 1) 60
n/t
Comment Re:Too bad (Score 1) 149
People live in Austin, yes.
you call that living?
Comment Re:We're still here (Score 1) 570
I guess the mini big bang didn't cascade into a big big bang like some folks worried.
or hoped.
Comment Re:Just ... (Score 2, Funny) 308
I have balls of steel. So, yes, my sperm is magnetic.
Comment Re:This assumes... (Score 1) 930
it's stupid drivers. I drive a 2009 camry, and I have large feet. I have no problems with the placement or shape of the pedals. I also know how to turn the ignition off and shift into neutral.
Comment Re:way to drive (Score 1) 375
If an event is present "all the time", and "99.99%" of the time it is a "false alarm", then it isn't an indicator at all.
I think that's the point.
Submission + - Web Delivery of Content with Expiration?
dangineer writes: Long time reader, first time questioner.
I have a demand for delivery of web content, mostly flash presentation to a paying audience. I need to deliver through the web and have considered writing my own php/MySQL application for doing this, have done some low level stuff like this in the past with good success. But, after reading all the SQL injection attack stories etc. I am convinced that the jackleg applications I have written in the past are not primetime ready for delivering something with the upmost reliability.
Having bought docs online from standards orgs and other places I see they use delivery through obscurity with some expiring URL with a long random string. My options are to manually generate the string, load the content to the string directory, delete directory in 30 days or whatever...but is there a better way? Something safe in the GPL CMS space for this?
P.S. I am poor.
I have a demand for delivery of web content, mostly flash presentation to a paying audience. I need to deliver through the web and have considered writing my own php/MySQL application for doing this, have done some low level stuff like this in the past with good success. But, after reading all the SQL injection attack stories etc. I am convinced that the jackleg applications I have written in the past are not primetime ready for delivering something with the upmost reliability.
Having bought docs online from standards orgs and other places I see they use delivery through obscurity with some expiring URL with a long random string. My options are to manually generate the string, load the content to the string directory, delete directory in 30 days or whatever...but is there a better way? Something safe in the GPL CMS space for this?
P.S. I am poor.
Comment Re:Oh for the love of... (Score 1) 404
I agree with you. This legislation is reason 10394852 that we need to return to a part time legislature in California. Al they should be concerned with is passing a balanced budget. We have enough laws here already. IF something's missing, we have the referendum process (which has it's own problems and needs reform).
Comment Re:ATT Uverse runs over coax (Score 2, Informative) 608
Not very likely. Instead, they use one of the "cable modem" protocols, perhaps DOCSIS.
U-Verse uses HPNA for the coax networking.
Comment Re:irony (Score 1) 259
maybe... or maybe to UCLA and Stanford as they were the ones doing the actual research and had the first INTER-conneted NETworks.
Comment Re:Worth it? (Score 1) 178
Doesn't matter what hulu changes now. It's going to be dead as soon as Comcast takes over NBC.
Comment Re:Python (Score 2, Funny) 799
hassle? Doesn't python come with the operating system?
$ python --version
Python 2.6.2
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\brian>python --version
'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
guess not
Comment Re:Buyout? (Score 1) 437
That's at least an order of magnitude more than they would need to take GM off the government's hands. :D
Submission + - NOAA forecasts weakest solar cycle since 1928
radioweather writes: NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has today published their latest
Solar Cycle 24 prediction, and say it will be not only be delayed, but the "weakest since1928".
Sun watchers have been noting the delayed start to cycle 24 and the dearth
of sunspots since the first cycle 24 spot was seen on January 4th, 2008.
Since then, NOAA's SWPC has been gradually modifying the solar forecast to point
to a quieter and delayed cycle 24. As seen in a comparison
two latest SWPC prediction graphs they have now abandoned the "high
count" sunspot forecast and gone only with the lower sunspot forecast..
It is a big difference over what was seen in SWPC solar forecasts a year ago.
It is a big difference over what was seen in SWPC solar forecasts a year ago.
