More in-depth quote.

"I’ll note: this has nothing to do with dark matter. As it happens, 90% of the matter in the Universe is in a form that emits no light, but affects other matter through gravity. We know it exists, and you can find out why here. We know it exists locally, in nearby galaxies and clusters of galaxies, too. This new result doesn’t affect that, since the now un-hidden galaxies are very far away, like many billions of light years away. They can’t possibly affect nearby galaxies, so they don’t account for dark matter."

Sweet, the first article that was so bad I just tagged it as spam. I'd worry about the future but the filters on the /. editors have been crap for years, surprised there aren't more of these.

Thanks for the info, I'll check on converting it. The machine isn't my primary machine by any stretch, and at the end of the day, it's the only OS that needs to phone home in order to function.

I guess one admins feature is another admins annoyance.

I have a machine, purchased by my employer that has to be validated against the key server at the office.

The machine however is at my house. The only way to make it validate is to ensure that I'm connected to the VPN when it attempts to find its key.

Does this mean once a quarter (if I have this update) my machine will downgrade itself, make me hop on the VPN, revalidate etc.?

That's just damn annoying. I'll probably end up cracking my legit install to stop this stupid behavior. When the cracked version of your software is less obnoxious than the legitimate version you have a problem.

Granted it's /. so I don't expect anything else.

The block is only in place for Verizon Wireless traffic, not all of Verizon's traffic.

Apple computer:

Total dicks to the competition, and therefore driving innovation!

Way to go Apple. :p

I think you missed the entire story there.

They found that if the fee was too low then parents felt fine showing up late and paying the fee. However, if you raise the fee high enough then they don't show up late anymore. Hence the $2 per minute your late fees at daycare centers that are standard around here.

Don't think Comcast didn't figure out the second part of that one.

I think there's a misundertsanding as to how the hiring process works.

First, you get a ton of resumes in. Far more than you could interview, so step one.

Get rid of people.

The first step in almost any hiring process is to figure out which people you don't want. This is where little stupid things screw you over. Depending on how many resumes a hiring manager has, having an @aol.com email address just might be enough to get your resume thrown in the "don't bother" pile. At the end of the day they still have 30 good, qualified people to start phone interviews with, what do they care if they had 31?

So if they tighten things up they'll be better able to compete?

I'd just like to take this opportunity to tip my hat to the folks that designed this rover. It was slated for a 180 day mission, and they just finished up day 2,190. That's some pretty high quality engineering that must have gone into this project, especially when you take into account it's on *another planet*, so no tech to fiddle with something that's just a bit off here or there.

No parts, no cleaning, no help at all. To top that off, it's doing all of this on Mars, which isn't really an electronics friendly environment. It crash landed on another planet from a rocket ship and worked 10x longer than it was supposed to.

Well done.

Actually, I just wanted a demonstration on power through the air that was totally safe. (not the Sony method)

http://www.videosift.com/video/Wireless-Electricity-Demonstration-TED-Talk

Was a demo by TED talk.

They actually demo it with a TV, and cell phone application. Uses high frequency vibrations to generate electricity with magnetic waves.

Super bad ass. Way more interesting that this crap.

I would love to be able to burn backups to non-magnetic disk, and not have to use 40 of them to back up 1TB or more of data. I would hope that one of the early niches they'll look into will be backups and storage needs.

So then what? Nothing happens to these people? If they are connected to this mess and convicted they should press them into service as part of the clean up process of all this crap. Make them work cleaning up the lethal crap they felt no qualms about exposing everyone else to.