Comment Better still... (Score 1) 589
Rampaging cult overthrows galactic government by leveraging hallucinogenic drug responsible for space-faring civilization.
Comment Telecom Question (Score 1) 138
I know that cell calls use (or used to use) a form of security that involved constantly rotating calls from channel to channel (or whatever the terms are). Does data access work in this way whereas AT&T just handed over an open session (possibly from a dropped 'call')?
Comment The Moral of the Story: (Score 1) 138
Click the damn "logout" link to end the session.
Comment Re:Snapstream? (Score 1) 536
I have to chime in since I was a happy BeyondTV customer. Snapstream's interface was better than Tivo's (an WAY better than Cox Cable's POS). But that's been some time now opting simply for Zoomplayer or VLC ...I don't even have cable anymore...I no longer surf, I just wade in.
Comment Ritualized Terrorism (Score 1) 709
Every autumn we indoctrinate our children in a ritual of disguising themselves before knocking on strangers' doors and extorting confections from them on threat of vandalism. Gotta love tradition!
Comment Re:How big again? (Score 1) 245
Not only that, but a small box hanging out that far would cause a tracking problem. For instance, if you get flashbulb or sunspot burn in on the retina, when you 'try to acquire' this fixed image it will keep moving like it's your eyeball's private wild-goose chase.
Comment Ecliptics? (Score 1) 251
While the ribbon's perpendicular orientation to the galactic magnetic field is interesting, I'd like to know the relative orientations of the galactic and solar system ecliptics. If for no other reason than to have a frame of reference.
I'm guessing that the galactic field is roughly perpendicular to its ecliptic (right hand rule?) but not necessarily to our direction of penetration with our heliopause.
Comment Grammatical slit experiment (Score 1) 263
Could someone clarify if you can have "...just one cosmic ray...". I know that high energy particles of this sort are simultaneously considered both a particle stream and a wave-front but that sentence stuck out for me. Not being nit-picky, just curious. thanks.
Comment Re:i wonder ... (Score 1) 202
But they would know that we are intelligent enough to know that Wormhole X-treme! is a fictional cover-up of the real cover-up. Ergo, they would attempt to mislead us by defrauding the actual cover-up with the actual truth which is that Wormhole X-treme! is the real program!
Comment So that explains it (Score 1) 756
Republicans are for military buildup because they can survive a nuclear war!
Comment Revisions revisions (Score 1) 127
I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
Oh, and The Internet is for porn.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
Oh, and The Internet is for porn.
Submission + - Ubuntu with Ext3 is Faster than Windows 7 and XP (flexense.com)
twitter writes: "Slashdot has reported questions about the performance of Windows 7 and comparisons to Ubuntu in general tests. At the time, people claimed that XP was faster than both and that Windows 7 just needed some work. Another study now shows that Ubuntu wipes both XP and Windows 7 in a key area, file service.
Abundant performance delivered by today's quad-core processors has shifted the performance bottleneck from the CPU and memory to the disk I/O subsystem in most of day-to-day usage scenarios.
... which one of modern operating systems is capable of utilizing fast hard drives and multi-core CPUs most effectively?
In all file search, classification and storage utilization analysis operations Ubuntu is faster than both tested Windows operating systems by a huge margin.... users and IT professionals constantly working with large amounts data should seriously consider using Ubuntu Linux as the main file and data management platform.
I doubt any of this change by the promissed October 22 release date and don't know why people still use XP."
Submission + - ISS pilots 'interplanetary internet' (itnews.com.au)
schliz writes: Researchers developing the 'Interplanetary Internet' have launched its first permanent node in Space via a payload aboard the International Space Station. The network is based on a new communications protocol called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). It will be tested heavily this month, and could give astronauts direct Internet access within a year.
The Interplanetary Internet is the brainchild of Vint Cerf ('father of the Internet'), among others. Last year, NASA tested the technology on the Deep Impact spacecraft.
The Interplanetary Internet is the brainchild of Vint Cerf ('father of the Internet'), among others. Last year, NASA tested the technology on the Deep Impact spacecraft.
Submission + - Cheney hid secret CIA plan from congress
tvlinux writes: Leon Panetta, head of the CIA, has accused former US Vice-President Dick Cheney of concealing an intelligence program from Congress, Senator Dianne Feinstein stated. The program was hidden from congress for 8 years and was discovered June 22 2009.
Submission + - Heart Association using Wii to teach CPR (arstechnica.com)
Meshach writes: The American Heart Association is giving $50k to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to develop a Wii game to help teach CPR. The hope is that this will make learning CPR more relevant to today's society.
