Comment Re:just Turing? (Score 3, Funny) 653
Sometimes it builds brides too, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Trust a slashdotter to skew the conversation around to robotic life partners eventually.
Comment Re:Bye bye marvel... (Score 1) 423
Best post ever.
Comment Re:Whats the drop rate on that? (Score 1) 290
I LOL'd IRL
Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 199
I certainly remember seeing a TV programme in the UK about the phenomenon, and I haven't lived there for over 5 years.
Comment Re:Prices (Score 3, Insightful) 289
Why are all the prices in British Pounds? Did they just annex all those countries overnight or is the author of the article a lazy bastard?
The prices are in British Pounds, because the linked article is on a UK website. The author of the article is someone who is reporting the news to people in his country of origin. Congratulations on discovering that there's an entire world outside your country's borders!
Vacuum Leaks Lead To Another LHC Delay 224
suraj.sun tips this story at ZDNet about a new problem with the LHC. Quoting:
"The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment. The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a CERN press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October. To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats,' while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, CERN said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe. CERN has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009. In May, CERN [said] that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time."
Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack 114
Al writes "Two researchers have found a way to run unauthorized code on an iPhone remotely. This is different than 'jailbreaking,' which requires physical access to the device. Normally applications have to be signed cryptographically by Apple in order to run. But Charles Miller of Independent Security Evaluators and Vincenzo Iozzo from the University of Milan found more than one instance in which Apple failed to prevent unauthorized data from executing. This means that a program can be loaded into memory as a non-executable block of data, after which the attacker can essentially flip a programmatic switch and make the data executable. The trick is significant, say Miller and Iozzo, because it provides a way to do something on a device after making use of a remote exploit. Details will be presented next month at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas." The attack was developed on version 2.0 of the iPhone software, and the researchers don't know if it will work when 3.0 is released.
Comment Re:just a thought (Score 2, Interesting) 293
If it's on the same multiplex, it's quite easy to do (with DVB, anyway, dunno what sort of craziness might be involved in ATSC).
If it's not on the same multiplex, you'd need at least one other tuner in the box (2 if sequential "channel" numbers are all on different multiplexes). Quite often that's the case, though, particularly in boxes which offer picture-in-picture or "record one channel, watch another" type functionality.
If it's not on the same multiplex, you'd need at least one other tuner in the box (2 if sequential "channel" numbers are all on different multiplexes). Quite often that's the case, though, particularly in boxes which offer picture-in-picture or "record one channel, watch another" type functionality.
Comment Because it's badder. (Score 1) 443
Badda bing!
Sorry if it's been done.
Sorry if it's been done.
Comment Looks like pogoplug... (Score 3, Funny) 346
... are using one to host their website.
Comment Re:Does the law have the right direction? (Score 1) 408
You're joking, right?
Comment Re:Um, what? (Score 1) 492
The quote was taken slightly out of context - it started like this:
Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels:if your reaction to this...
I believe the suggestion is that if said media people are thinking like that, they're going to be out of a job soon, and should consider buying cheap food and attempting to make industry contacts in order to assist with getting a new job.
Comment Re:Not so hippocritical (Score 1) 532
They can just ask the Mac Business Unit to hold off on working on MS Office for Mac for a little bit while they borrow one of the Macs they work on.
Or they could borrow that macbook pro off the songsmith girl.
Comment Re:Not so much... (Score 2, Insightful) 532
So you're complaining that you've invested in the wrong hardware and software?
Maybe look at it this way - to build for WinMob, you're going to need to build a windows VM (windows vista home premium: $240) and then you're going to need to get visual studio (standard: $299). I make that $539 total, for some software.
If you want to build for iPhone, you need a mac mini ($599 for the basic model) and a $0 download of Xcode.
So you're moaning about the fact that you have to pay $60 to get a mac mini.
Comment Re:I've bought my last Palm product anyway (Score 1) 300
FYI, the Pre does have a keypad - the back of the device slides down to reveal it.
http://www.palm.com/us/assets/images/products/phones/detail/pre/gallery/pre_05.png
