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Comment Ask Japan... (Score 1, Troll) 309

by Press2ToContinue (#49019391) Attached to: The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy

...how they feel about nuclear power as an "eco-friendly" source of "renewable" energy.

And the rest of the growing list of countries phasing it out completly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out

Exactly how many nuclear disasters does it take before we figure out how to do what these other countries are already doing?

Submission + - NASA confirms results for 'impossible' space drive that uses no rocket fuel (examiner.com) 1

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: Last August, NASA’s Eagleworks, an advanced space propulsion lab located at the Johnson Spaceflight Center south of Houston, created a great deal of excitement when it announced that it had tested a prototype of something called a Cannae Drive. Using microwaves, the device seemed to exert a minute but measurable degree of thrust when mounted on a pendulum in a vacuum chamber. NextBigFuture provided an update on the experiments on an engine that uses no fuel and seems to violate Newtonian physics.

In essence, the team at Eagleworks has been able to replicate the results of the original experiment, exerting a thrust in the area of 50 micro-Newtons. The team has been hampered by a lack of funding to fight through equipment failures. Nevertheless, they are working, very slowly, to scale up the thrust to 100 micro-Newtons. At that point, they intend to take the device to the Glenn Research Center for another replication effort.

Comment Recently I've been coding with a Lesbian... (Score 1) 254

and I asked her how she felt about how there are few women coders, and surprisingly her answer was that she was happy with that because she enjoyed working with mostly men, because she "could avoid all the cattiness and emotional bullshit" and just concentrate on work.

Maybe we should focus on recruiting just the lesbian part of the female workforce then? ;)

Comment I clicked the More button and got... (Score 1) 105

by Press2ToContinue (#48980837) Attached to: Staples To Buy Office Depot For $6.3 Billion

outrageousness, monstrousness, hideousness, heinousness, horror, atrocity; villainy, cruelty, inhumanity, mercilessness, brutality, savagery, viciousness.

Wiktionary states: Enormity is frequently used as a synonym for "enormousness," rather than "great wickedness." This is frequently considered an error; the words have different roots in French, and radically different accepted meanings

As far as I can tell, the vernacular usage of enormity to which you refer is a rather recent addition to the definition, and first came into usage during the media coverage of Bush Jr's lavish inauguration, during which reporters referred to the "enormity" of the proceedings.

An adjective has rarely been abused in so fitting a way as that.

The media has repeated that usage slavishly since then.

Submission + - Canada, Japan Cave on Copyright Term Extension in TPP (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Last month, there were several Canadian media reports on how the work of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, had entered the public domain. While this was oddly described as a "copyright quirk", it was no quirk. The term of copyright in Canada (alongside TPP countries such as Japan and New Zealand) is presently life of the author plus an additional 50 years, a term that meets the international standard set by the Berne Convention. Those countries now appear to have caved to U.S. pressure as there are reports that they have agreed to extend to life plus 70 years as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Submission + - Alibaba pilots drone delivery service in China (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Following the lead of online retail giant Amazon, Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba has today tested its first drone delivery service. Asia’s largest e-retailer promises to deliver ginger tea within an hour to customers across its flagship consumer-to-consumer marketplace Taobao, which holds an estimated 90 per cent market share in the country. The remote-controlled black and silver drones are helicopter-like in design and carry a white box containing the product. For now the service is limited to a three-day test in three of China’s largest mega-cities, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and confined to just one tea brand from one merchant. The trial will be applied up to a limit of 450 tea deliveries.

Submission + - OpenSSH will feature key discovery and rotation for easier switching to Ed25519

Submitted by ConstantineM
ConstantineM writes: OpenSSH developer Damien Miller wrote tomorrow from Down Under about a new feature he implemented and committed for the next upcoming 6.8 release of OpenSSH — hostkeys@openssh.com — an OpenSSH extension to the SSH protocol for sshd to automatically send all of its public keys to the client, and for the client to automatically replace all keys of such server within ~/.ssh/known_hosts with the fresh copies as supplied (provided the server is trusted in the first place, of course). The protocol extension is simple enough, and is aimed to make it easier to switch over from DSA to the OpenSSL-free Ed25519 public keys. It is also designed in such a way as to support the concept of spare host keys being stored offline, which could then seamlessly replace main active keys should they ever become compromised.

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