Comment Sometimes smart is stupid. (Score 1) 128
Keep it simple, stupid.
Comment Better watch out for himself (Score 1) 144
"he's saving that for his talk at Hack in the Box in Amsterdam next month"
He'll be in a CIA torture chamber before then if he's not careful.
Comment Re:Wood for biofuels? Slow and wasteful. (Score 1) 112
Hemp is pretty low in recoverable energy compared to many other... oh wait... nevermind...
Comment GameSpy ruined FSX MP (Score 1) 145
Flight Simulator X was pretty awesome, but multiplayer sucked because of GameSpy.
Comment Re:I uninstalled Firefox because of this. (Score 1) 1746
I have done precisely that. I have never seen such a deplorable display of intolerance and bigotry until I saw how he was treated for expressing his absolutely-protected right to freedom of speech and expression.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and nobody should have to leave their completely unrelated job because of how they voted.
Shame on the gay community for this. Absolute shame.
Comment Re:This is paid advertising bullshit. (Score 1) 353
"SSDs are NOT a good thing. They are smaller than normal drives for MUCH greater cost/GB, and they fail just as fucking much as normal HDDs anyway."
My experience has been that SSDs fail MUCH more frequently than HDDs. What's worse, when they do fail, they usually fail catastrophically with no practical or affordable way to retrieve your data.
SSDs DO have an enormous performance benefit in random read/write operations, but the risk just isn't worth it IMHO. I do have several machines with SSDs in them for that benefit, but they all do an incremental backup daily to my server, and I don't keep any data on them. Not even pictures of my cat.
Cheaper Fuel From Self-Destructing Trees 112
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Wood is great for building and heating homes, but it's the bane of biofuels. When converting plants to fuels, engineers must remove a key component of wood, known as lignin, to get to the sugary cellulose that's fermented into alcohols and other energy-rich compounds. That's costly because it normally requires high temperatures and caustic chemicals. Now, researchers in the United States and Canada have modified the lignin in poplar trees to self-destruct under mild processing conditions—a trick that could slash the cost of turning plant biomass into biofuels."
Study: Exposure To Morning Sunlight Helps Managing Weight 137
jones_supa (887896) writes "A new Northwestern Medicine study reports the timing, intensity and duration of your light exposure during the day is linked to your weight — the first time this has been shown. People who had most of their daily exposure to even moderately bright light in the morning had a significantly lower body mass index (BMI) than those who had most of their light exposure later in the day, the study found. It accounted for about 20 percent of a person's BMI and was independent of an individual's physical activity level, caloric intake, sleep timing, age or season. About 20 to 30 minutes of morning light is enough to affect BMI. The senior author Phyllis C. Zee rationalizes this by saying that light is the most potent agent to synchronize your internal body clock that regulates circadian rhythms, which in turn also regulate energy balance. The study was small and short. It included 54 participants (26 males, 28 females), an average age of 30. They wore a wrist actigraphy monitor that measured their light exposure and sleep parameters for seven days in normal-living conditions. Their caloric intake was determined from seven days of food logs. The study was published April 2 in the journal PLOS ONE. Giovanni Santostasi, a research fellow in neurology at Feinberg, is a co-lead author."
Comment A man with one atomic clock knows what time it is. (Score 5, Funny) 127
A man with two atomic clocks is never sure.
Comment I hope he gets a lot of instructions per clock... (Score 3, Insightful) 34
Because 0.0136986 Hz is not that high a clock speed...
Comment Re:Ya know ... (Score 1) 325
Did I say anything about conservatives? No, I said nothing, either way, about conservatives. I was only talking about Progressives.
Comment What about C4FM and D-STAR? (Score 1) 129
What can you say about your activities geared towards eliminating the use of D-STAR, C4FM, and other proprietary digital codecs in Amateur Radio? It seems the scourge of these proprietary technologies continues unabated. Have you done any work to develop any open digital standards for Amateur Radio? If so, where does that work currently stand?
Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show 167
An anonymous reader writes "Wil Wheaton just announced a new TV show he's hosting and producing. It'll air on SyFy this summer, starting May 27th. Here's how he describes it: 'The Wil Wheaton Project is a weekly roundup of the things I love on television and on the Internet, with commentary and jokes, and the occasional visit from interesting people who make those things happen. It's sort of like Talk Soup for geeks, with a heavy focus on those hilariously bad paranormal reality shows (in fact, that's where the whole thing started a year ago, but as we worked on the show more and more, we discovered that there were lots of scripted paranormal shows that provided a ton of comedic material. When we expanded to cover the scripted shows, we discovered that nobody was doing a show like this that was just focused on the genre shows that nerds like us love, and we decided that we'd make that show because of reasons.)' He adds, '... if I read correctly between the lines during our meetings with the Syfy executives, this is just the beginning of the network formerly known as Sci-Fi returning to its science fiction roots, which is awesome.'"
Comment Re:3rd world wages in a country with 1st world pri (Score 1) 325
Median earnings of lawyers in the US: $113,530
Median earnings of engineering MBAs in the US: $124,870
Why wouldn't we want a country packed with people earning 6-figure incomes?
Comment Re:Ya know ... (Score 2) 325
Using the Government as a weapon against their competitors is what progressives do. We are fast approaching the establishment of the progressive ruling class, where if you're among the progressive elite, your company gets favorable treatment from government, and a slanted playing field.
