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Comment I read "Science" (Score 4, Informative) 337

by hey hey hey on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:21AM (#36905152) Attached to: How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments?

I subscribe to the journal Science. While I admit the actual research articles might as well be written in Linear B, the news articles, and the in-depth sections in front are written assuming the reader is intelligent and educated, but just not an expert in the particular field. It is such a joy to read articles that aren't aimed at the lowest common denominator!

I'm sure Nature, or other similar quality journals, would work as well (I choose Science, mostly because I found a subscription card for them).

Comment Re:Things we've lost (Score 1) 662

by hey hey hey on Thursday May 26, 2011 @05:23PM (#36256424) Attached to: Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost

We used to have variants of Pascal suitable for systems programming.

No. You might have used Pascal for systems programming, it was never suitable for it. C ate Pascal's lunch for really good reasons, and it has since drifted off into the irrelevancy it deserves. Google Kernighan's "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" as a start, the rest I leave as an exercise for the reader.

Comment Re:What's it supposed to be? (Score 2) 204

by hey hey hey on Saturday May 14, 2011 @01:56AM (#36125062) Attached to: Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago

I'm not sure what 80s system it's supposed to be emulating. .

Seems kinda TOPS/10 to me.

Comment Re:Hi, welcome to the Duke lacrosse team (Score 0) 537

by hey hey hey on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @06:24PM (#36029760) Attached to: Chinese iPad Factory Staff Forced To Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge

(I always thought profs were secretly bastards at heart.)

Nope, profs are people too, and just as likely to get caught up in the heat of the moment as anyone else. They might know more than you ever will about Shakespeare, or fluid dynamics, that doesn't make them infallible.

Comment Re:Pffft (Score 2) 537

by hey hey hey on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @06:20PM (#36029702) Attached to: Chinese iPad Factory Staff Forced To Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge

Come to think of it where does it say that he's allowed to live in that house? The mortgage/rental agreement is in your name, not his.

The rental agreements that I use have a section that describes the rights of minors to live in the space (and they are listed by name). If they are not minors, they are required to sign the lease (you are not allowed to have guest for longer than 2 weeks without permission, no matter their relationship to you).

Comment Re:Nethack (Score 2, Interesting) 201

by hey hey hey on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @12:23PM (#35954152) Attached to: Roguelikes: the Misnamed Genre

Based on your UID number, you probably remember... but the keyboards at the time Rogue (and vi) came out didn't _have_ cursor keys.

You can't tell by my UID, but I was actually AT Berkeley when Rogue and vi came out. The ADM-3A terminal (which was by far the most common terminal there, and lots of other places) had a left arrow on the H, a down arrow on the J, a up arrow on the K and a right arrow on the L. Not cursor keys per-se, but a dang strong hint.

Comment Re:BCC still existed? (Score 2, Interesting) 366

by hey hey hey on Sunday February 20, 2011 @08:37PM (#35263408) Attached to: The Death of BCC

BCC doesnt show other recipients

Not all mail systems handle BCC this way. The X.400 system (at least used to) take the odd approach of hiding the BCC recipients from the main recipients, but all the BCC recipients could see each other. Other mailers may do equally odd things (or have non-standard settings).

Genghis Khan, History's Greenest Conqueror 279

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 24, 2011 @04:28PM from the taking-the-good-with-the-bad dept.

New research suggests that in addition to being one of history's cruelest conquerors, Genghis Khan may have been the greenest. It is estimated that the Mongol leader's invasions unintentionally scrubbed almost 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere. From the article: "Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests. In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan's unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere." I guess everyone has their good points.

Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him 340

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 13, 2011 @12:03PM from the don't-watch-the-news dept.

Stoobalou writes "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of 'treason' by a Florida man seeking damages for distress caused by the site's revelations about the US government. From the article: 'David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident, names Assange and WikiLeaks as defendants in a personal injury suit filed with the Florida Southern District Court in Miami. In the complaint filed on 6th January, Pitchford alleges that Assange's negligence has caused "hypertension," "depression" and "living in fear of being stricken by another heart attack and/or stroke" as a result of living "in fear of being on the brink of another nuclear [sic] WAR."' Just for good measure, it also alleges that Assange and WikiLeaks are guilty of 'terorism [sic], espionage and treason.'"

Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk 188

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:53PM from the waiting-for-the-spider-silk-boxers dept.

disco_tracy writes "Silkworms have been modified to produce spider silk, creating a fabric that could be used in everything from bulletproof clothing to artificial tendons." For some reason, this is far less revolting to me than the idea of spider silk being milked out of goats.

First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created 261

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 15, 2010 @07:59PM from the what-about-a-really-good-egg-cream dept.

Gisg writes "The University of Arizona team reported that their genetically modified mosquitoes are immune to the malaria-causing parasite, a single-cell organism called Plasmodium. Riehle and his colleagues tested their genetically-altered mosquitoes by feeding them malaria-infested blood. Not even one mosquito became infected with the malaria parasite."

The Proton Just Got Smaller 289

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 08, 2010 @12:00PM from the size-does-matter dept.

inflame writes "A new paper published in Nature has said that the proton may be smaller than we previously thought. The article states 'The difference is so infinitesimal that it might defy belief that anyone, even physicists, would care. But the new measurements could mean that there is a gap in existing theories of quantum mechanics. "It's a very serious discrepancy," says Ingo Sick, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has tried to reconcile the finding with four decades of previous measurements. "There is really something seriously wrong someplace."' Would this indicate new physics if proven?"

California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere 155

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 06, 2010 @12:00AM from the some-more-tea-dear? dept.

MichaelSmith writes "Scientists think that there might be arsenic-based life in Mono Lake, California. If it's shown to exist, such life could have evolved independently from our own, or it could have forked from ours at a very early stage."

Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn 819

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:39AM from the revenge-of-the-lawn dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that Orange County officials are locked in a legal battle with a couple accused of violating city ordinances for replacing the grass on their lawn with wood chips and drought-tolerant plants, reducing their water usage from 299,221 gallons in 2007 to 58,348 gallons in 2009. The dispute began two years ago, when Quan and Angelina Ha tore out the grass in their front yard. In drought-plagued Southern California, the couple said, the lush grass had been soaking up tens of thousands of gallons of water — and hundreds of dollars — each year. 'We've got a newborn, so we want to start worrying about her future,' said Quan Ha, an information technology manager for Kelley Blue Book. But city officials told the Has they were violating several city laws that require that 40% of residential yards to be landscaped predominantly with live plants. Last summer, the couple tried to appease the city by building a fence around the yard and planting drought-tolerant greenery — lavender, rosemary, horsetail, and pittosporum, among others. But according to the city, their landscaping still did not comply with city standards. At the end of January, the Has received a letter saying they had been charged with a misdemeanor violation and must appear in court. The couple could face a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for their grass-free, eco-friendly landscaping scheme. 'It's just funny that we pay our taxes to the city and the city is now prosecuting us with our own money,' says Quan Ha."

Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent 98

Posted by timothy on Friday February 19, 2010 @06:31PM from the plus-one-invitation dept.

"Not all is worth cheering about as Adobe turns 20," writes reader adeelarshad82, who excerpts from a story at PC Magazine's Security Watch: "Researcher Aviv Raff has found a problem in ADM (Adobe Download Manager) and the method through which it is delivered from adobe.com. The net effect of the problem is that a user can be tricked into downloading and installing software using ADM without actual consent. Tonight Adobe acknowledged the report and said they were working on the issue with Raff and NOS Microsystems, the company that wrote ADM."

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