Comment The title is the summary (Score 0) 24
This summary has reached a new level of not summarising the article at all.
FTFY:
FTFY:
Zothecula writes
Comment The Slashdot effect (Score 1) 219
I'm sure all these editorial discussions will be promptly settled once and for all now that they have been slashdotted.
Comment Re:What do you mean? (Score 1) 205
Neither, it's Australian.
And its common name is Bruce.
Submission + - First Swedish CC-licensed movie hits TPB (boingboing.net)
Hattmannen writes: Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing tells us about the first ever Creative Commons-licensed, feature-length movie to come out from Sweden. It's called Nasty Old People and premiered yesterday at The Pirate Bay.
The story:
The story:
"Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and in company with the her crazy oldies she longs for respect and love. She can tell that the old folks are marginalized by the modern society, but together they create a world and a voice of their own."
Submission + - Seamonkey 2.0 RC1 is here! (seamonkey-project.org)
binarybum writes: Seamonkey has released it's first official non-beta release (Candidate 1) of it's firefox 3 engine base integrated browser. Very slick and runs email and web with less memory than two separate apps.
Submission + - An Electron Microscope for Your Home? (wired.com)
CuteSteveJobs writes: Could Microscopy be in for a new golden age? Wired previews the desktop-sized Hitachi TM-100 Electron Microscope. Light microscopes can magnify up to 400X (1,000X albeit at lower quality) — just enough to see bacteria as shapes — but this one offers 20X to 10,000X giving some amazing pictures. Unlike traditional electron microscopes, this one plugs into a domestic power socket and specimens don't need any special preparation; It's point-and-shoot much like your typical digital camera. So easy, a grade-schooler could use it and earlier this year that's what happened: The kids at Iwanuma Elementary School in Miyagi, Japan got their own electron microscope. At $60,000 you'll have to give up on the BMW, but the hope is with economy of scale (so far 1,000 have sold) and miniaturization the price will continue to drop. The only bad news? It runs XP.
Submission + - Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested 1
mindbrane writes: A scientist working as a subcontractor on a peripheral LHC project has been arrested as a terrorist. The CBC is running a story outlining the arrest of a man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links. "CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said."
"The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous."
"Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on.""
Other than sabotage of the LHC and the creation of a world destroying black hole, the arrest begs the question what possible collateral damage could a terrorist achieve?
"The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous."
"Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on.""
Other than sabotage of the LHC and the creation of a world destroying black hole, the arrest begs the question what possible collateral damage could a terrorist achieve?
Comment Thought I was the only one to think this way... (Score 1) 1040
As I can see by the comments made here, I realize I'm not alone in thinking that the border control in the USA is outrageous and insulting. It happens that I recently visited the States (in fact, Chicago) and I was pretty close to not want to get into the country and flight back to Barcelona (Spain) just because of the way they were treating me and the way I was feeling: am I a thief, a terrorist?
I've been to the States three times, and every single one of them I've had to get to to Homeland Security and explain the reason of my trip. Once was because I was staying too long! I was visiting a friend and staying at her house for 7weeks which, apparently was not right
The last time, my mum had a lighter in the suitcase. They told us she couldn't keep it. Why? Because it was rechargeable... wtf?? Am I not allowed to get 100ml into bottles on the plain? Why not a lighter?
I don't even wanna talk about the fact that they have the *right* to break through your baggage even if that means they have to break it! ARGGG it happened this to me on this very trip! And I could not protest!
Well, I think I made my point...
It'll probably take a long time to me to get back to the states, there are plenty of places to get where I'll be treated properly ( note: I'm not talking about the american citiziens themselves, who happen to be very welcoming and friendly).
Damnshock
Comment Oh did they really? (Score 1) 104
Sorry to be nitpicking here but:
'You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.'
Is not what the intro to my first episode says...
I wasn'a around at the time, and YouTube stated it was down for maintenance when I was going to check the link.
However;
The intro to the first episode (1959) that I watched says:
'You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wonderous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. At the sign-post up ahead, your next stop - The Twilight Zone'
I guess there may have been alternate intros though...
Comment It already IS a formal language. (Score 1) 334
Why not make the source itself a formal language?
It already IS a formal language: American English Leagalese.
This language started out as essentially the language as spoken at the time the early laws were written, then various words had their meanings defined, clarified, and frozen by court decisions. Further laws, contracts, and legal arguments and decisions used these words whose meanings were clarified in preference to other words that had not been so clarified. Meanwhile, in the absense of public education in the law for people who weren't making a carreer in the legal system, the spoken language drifted away.
Comment Veiled? (Score 1) 104
I don't see what was particularly veiled about the commentary in the show. Half the time, Serling himself would outright state the moral the end, or the beginning.
Comment Re:I'm sure it didn't help. (Score 1) 1040
If you read the Papers written by middle class idiots who'd be afraid of their shadow in most working class neighborhoods of the world
There, corrected for ya, I grew up in a neighborhood the newspaper like to describe as "omg violent gangs shooting each other" and yet, the ministry of justice's statistics hint (let's face it they wouldn't tell it) at the very well known fact that there's more police brutality going on than actual violent crime.
Comment Re:Num Lock! (Score 1) 939
I the arrowkeys on the number pad for playing Civilization 2.
Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 1040
Crime requires an injured party. Who am I injuring when I'm carrying weed in my pocket? I mean, besides the hurt feelings of some person who believes they can tell me what I can or cannot do with my own person...
Comment Re:host the servers in antigua (Score 1) 244
Pray tell, why are you so pissy about this?
You call it 'pissy' because you disagree with me and believe that making an Ad Hominem attack will somehow help you make a point. I call it 'passionate'. This is one of the key issues of our time.
