Comment Re:So true (Score 0) 366
If you have multiple girlfriends and you want to share with all of them "Happy Valentine's Day", and don't want to be bothered compose individual emails, then Bcc is great.
Comment Re:Yes, Thank Turing We're Not the Media Hype Mach (Score 1) 293
It's still far better than Google and other search tools currently available. Type a jeopardy question into Google, and click "feeling lucky" -- you won't find squat. Jeopardy is all about obscure clues. "This man was the son of a president, a president himself, and invaded the same country as his father." Type that into google and you'll get crap, because "Bush" and "Iraq" are never mentioned in the clues, because they'd be too obvious.
Comment Re:Unemployment & Economy (Score 2) 130
Most identity theft involves opening new credit lines. Guess what? Banks don't give new credit lines anymore. Folks are stuck with whatever existing credit lines they have.
Comment Re:OEMs usually don't ship SSDs very often (Score 1) 203
Umm, you do realize the faulty ports are all the 3 Gbps ports, and the good ports are the two 6 Gbps ports, right?
Comment Re:I'll be first to say WTF (Score 1) 700
Exactly - it's a very common epsilon-delta proof. You challenge the opponent to find an epsilon they think your answer is wrong by, and you come up with a delta that beats your opponent's epsilon. In formal terms, (f(x) - f(x+delta)) epsilon. In this case, f(x), the target is 1, and delta is -epsilon. If your opponent challenges you to find a number 0.0001 close to 1, you can give him 1-0.0001 (aka 0.9999). Because your opponent can pick arbitrarily close to 0, and you always have a delta to win the challenge, then your opponent cannot claim your number is any different from 1.
Comment Re:I'll be first to say WTF (Score 2) 700
The people who think there's a non-zero "digit" after 0.0000.... need to be given the example of 12/99 = 0.1212121212... what do they think the number "ends" with, 1 or 2? Either their heads will explode trying to figure out what 0.1212121212.... ends with, or they will realize that such decimal strings do _not_ end.
New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet 406
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes "Confirming heavy speculation in the Slashdot community, the New York Times reports that joint US-Israeli efforts were almost certainly behind the recent Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear program." The article stops just short of saying in so many words that Israeli is the doer, but leaves little doubt of its conclusion.
Sandy Bridge Motherboards Dissected, Compared 143
crookedvulture writes "As we've learned, Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs are pretty impressive. If you're going to build yourself a system with one, you'll need a new motherboard with an 1155-pin socket. The Tech Report has an in-depth look at four such boards based on Intel's P67 Express chipset. Although the boards offer identical application performance, there are notable differences between their power consumption and the speed of onboard peripherals like USB 3.0 and Serial ATA ports. Some implement the new UEFI BIOS framework while others do not, and the quality of those implementations varies quite a bit. Recommended reading for anyone thinking about rolling their own desktop with one of Intel's latest CPUs."
It's Surprisingly Hard To Notice When Moving Objects Change 140
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Harvard have found that people are remarkably bad at noticing when moving objects change in brightness, color, size, or shape. In a paper published yesterday (PDF) in Current Biology, the researchers present a new visual illusion that 'causes objects that had once been obviously dynamic to suddenly appear static.' The finding has implications for everything from video game design to the training of pilots."
Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? 785
Hugh Pickens writes "Dolphins have long been recognized as among the most intelligent of animals, but now the Times reports that a series of behavioral studies suggest that dolphins, especially species such as the bottlenose, have distinct personalities, a strong sense of self, can think about the future and are so bright that they should be treated as 'non-human persons.' 'Many dolphin brains are larger than our own and second in mass only to the human brain when corrected for body size,' says Lori Marino, a zoologist at Emory University. 'The neuroanatomy suggests psychological continuity between humans and dolphins and has profound implications for the ethics of human-dolphin interactions.' For example, one study found that dolphins can recognize their image in a mirror as a reflection of themselves — a finding that indicates self-awareness similar to that seen in higher primates and elephants. Other studies have found that dolphins are capable of advanced cognitive abilities such as problem-solving, artificial language comprehension, and complex social behavior, indicating that dolphins are far more intellectually and emotionally sophisticated than previously thought. Thomas White, professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University, has written a series of academic studies suggesting dolphins should have rights, claiming that the current relationship between humans and dolphins is, in effect, equivalent to the relationship between whites and black slaves two centuries ago."
Comment Re:Meh... (Score 1) 99
Only problem with any voting system is that spammers can get botnet votes. A comment like "SJDHIWH@IYG#" may have 4 million upvotes, none of which come from a human.
Comment Re:What is Apple's iPad OS? (Score 2) 227
Not to mention Android isn't an os, it's a platform involving the linux os, some device drivers, and libraries. Moreover, Android and iPad prevent copying because device manufacturers heavily lock those devices down.
Comment Re:News flash (Score 1) 446
You just defined a war. And, yes, killing during war is not considered murder.
Comment Re:News flash (Score 1) 446
Unless we redefine "people" to mean those who cheat, and reserve some other word to describe those who don't. The Supreme Court has already redefined "people" to include corporations, so it's apparently fashionable to redefine key terms like this.
Comment Re:Scratch a Liberal, find an Autocrat. (Score 1) 486
People don't go home because they "feel guilty" and "heard someone's argument". You give the idiots behind the megaphones too much credit.
Right-wing nutters outside abortion clinics have as much persuasive power in reasoning as a urine-soaked bum with Hep-C standing outside a Tiffany's jewelry store spewing about aliens implanting microchips beneath our skins.
No one is going to buy a $25,000 diamond ring when they have to cross a urine-soaked Hep-C bum, and it's not his "reasoning powers" that turned such customers away. You're delusional if you think everyone who doesn't shop at the store now believes aliens implant chips beneath our skin. Sane, normal people, like to stay away from the crazies.
I'm sure right-wing nutters would call it a DoS attack if 6'5" tall black men with black panther t-shirts stood by the entrances of all churches with megaphones blaring about white oppression. The church pews would empty out except for the die-hard churchgoers, and by your reasoning, it would be because they all 'agree' about white oppression, rather than just want to stay away from crazies.
