Comment Re:And this is different...??? (Score 2) 285
At least learning English is useful outside using JavaScript, whereas that is an exercise in masochism.
Comment As Leonard Nimoy told me many, many times, (Score 1) 323
"Everything is worth what the purchaser will pay for it."
Comment Re:Facebook is a public place (Score 1) 483
Unless, of course, you agree to the ToS that says they can.
Comment Re:It may be legal in germany... (Score 1) 141
It depends on Germany's copyright treaties with the US.
Submission + - BitTorrent usage increases in Europe, following The Pirate Bay blockade (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "In a twist that will surprise no one except the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, and other anti-piracy lobbies, the amount of BitTorrent traffic has stayed the same or increased in Europe following the blockade of The Pirate Bay in the UK, Netherlands, and other countries. This news comes from XS4All, one of the largest European ISPs, which has published a graph of the network traffic associated with the BitTorrent protocol — and sure enough, since the Dutch Pirate Bay blockade began in February 2012, traffic has stayed the same or increased slightly. There are probably a few reasons for this: a) The European blockades created a lot of publicity (and no publicity is bad publicity); b) TPB isn't the only torrent site out there, and many of its torrents are available elsewhere; and c) Internet denizens are a lot more savvy (proxies, VPNs, etc.) than the MPAA and co give them credit for."
Submission + - Gmail Becomes World's Largest Email Service (ibtimes.com) 1
redletterdave writes: "After several years of dominance, Microsoft's Web-based email service, Hotmail, has been unseated by Google's significantly younger webmail service, Gmail. Google announced it had about 350 million monthly active users in January; since then, that number has ballooned to 425 million."
Comment Re:Who in the hell wants to watch the video? (Score 3, Informative) 83
I got you: In the video he uses a laser cutter.
Comment Re:Not very new. (Score 1) 754
If you're really really good at Starcraft, you could end up a pro-gamer in Korea, which would put you in the same ranks in their society as a NFL player is here.
And the chance of injury is dramatically lower for SC players.
Comment Re:Are we failing to prepare children for leadersh (Score 1) 754
He's kinda tired, didn't fall asleep until 5am last night.
Comment Re:Don't try (Score 1) 726
Depends on the kid, I guess. My dad was all about Sci-Fi and fantasy. And because of that, so was I. But he didn't try to push on me, but rather encouraged it. Not to say the things he pushed on me I hated, but that wasn't one of those things.
Comment Re:fast frame more "real" than theater 3D (Score 1) 710
I thought "48fps Rah! Rah! Rah!" was the default opinion of the Internet®.
Comment Touring bike (Score 2) 356
To be specific, a Surly Long Haul Trucker. A very fine bike indeed.
Comment Re:Damn! (Score 1) 1165
This is /., and we all know the police shoot dogs first and ask questions in illegal interrogations later.
Comment Well, no shit (Score 1) 126
"On most university campuses, CS grew out of mathematics or engineering departments, not (ahem) from accounting or business departments, according to Williams and others."
You mean a specialized mathematics degree started in mathematics and engineering departments and not in departments that are completely unrelated? SHOCKER!
You mean a specialized mathematics degree started in mathematics and engineering departments and not in departments that are completely unrelated? SHOCKER!
Comment Re:Not Turing. von Neumann. (Score 1) 230
If you're Russian, use ternary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
