Comment Re:Mafia wars (Score 1) 135
With my Crockett hat with awesome defense I'm sure they'll look past me.
Comment Too much LHC QQ (Score 1) 338
Maybe it's just me - but it's like the U.S. media when all we see are 'LHC fails this, LHC fails that', not even newsworthy here.
A town without power is a bigger deal than this but we don't spam /. about it...
Comment Re:Been There, done that. (Score 1) 356
This is awesome.
Comment Uh.. instead of making a 'study'... (Score 1) 792
Because hopefully the purpose is to handle taxation to keep our roads and interstates in shape .... why not take that wasted $154mil and put that into the roads right now... that's a good start.
Think about it - $154mil to 'study' how to spend another $300mil? $1bil? $2bil? to 'implement' the outcomes of their study...
riiiiiggghhht...
Think about it - $154mil to 'study' how to spend another $300mil? $1bil? $2bil? to 'implement' the outcomes of their study...
riiiiiggghhht...
Comment Re:Oh, get real. (Score 1) 484
I take that back...
Hasn't anyone learned anything from the Mars Rover? They have to be super careful to keep them flipin panels clean on the rover... something tells me nasa uses better solar panels then what would be on the roads ...
Comment Re:Oh, get real. (Score 1) 484
$100k is chump change.
Maybe in california, but in Minnesota weather the first plow will ensure a blackout.
Comment Even if it -WAS- only meant for 'government' only (Score 1) 853
It'll be great when time.nist.gov goes down >_
Comment Do we really need something else to worry about? (Score 1) 853
Undersea transmission lines, backhoe to the fiber, natural disasters, botnets, worms, viruses, ddos, slashdotting - and to add icing to the cake, a presidential killswitch?
Brilliant.
Comment Re:Let's not over-react. (Score 1) 853
1. That means it's new - sorry to break it to you.
2. Fiber is fiber, the switches that run that fiber aren't always owned by the government....
You -can- turn the internet for the US off by enforcing ISP's to implement a new protocol or procedure - whether it be human interaction or something technical - it's possible.
what you're leaving out is that there's many more gap fillers that essentially give the government full discretion of what is 'vital' or not - do you honestly trust them to keep their mitts on their own servers?
Comment Great.. (Score 1) 853
All it takes is one security slip up ... internet killswitch for the win...
Comment Re:Git and Mercurial? (Score 1) 268
Torvalds, and Mozilla meaning Mozilla products ... I'm off a beat today, gimme a break.
Comment Re:Git and Mercurial? (Score 1) 268
You should get out of your bubble. Some very large open source projects user mercurial now - Mozilla and Xen to name a few - there's a budding community just like github called bitbucket for mercurial.
Hell, Tovalds made git for kernel development....
Submission + - 40% of Twitter messages 'pointless babble' (breitbart.com)
HuckleCom writes: It comes as no surprise to most of us to learn that lots of tweets are pointless babble.
According to Pear Analytics — "pointless babble" accounted for 40.55 percent of the total number of messages sampled (2000 random samples).
Conversational messages — defined by Pear as tweets that go back and forth between users or try to engage followers in conversation — accounted for 37.55 percent.
Pear said tweets with "pass-along value" — messages that are being "re-tweeted" or passed on by users to their followers — accounted for 8.70 percent.
Self-promotion by companies was next with 5.85 percent, followed by spam with 3.75 percent.
It said tweets with news from mainstream media publications accounted for 3.60 percent.
Pear said it planned to conduct the study every quarter to identify trends on Twitter.
According to Pear Analytics — "pointless babble" accounted for 40.55 percent of the total number of messages sampled (2000 random samples).
Conversational messages — defined by Pear as tweets that go back and forth between users or try to engage followers in conversation — accounted for 37.55 percent.
Pear said tweets with "pass-along value" — messages that are being "re-tweeted" or passed on by users to their followers — accounted for 8.70 percent.
Self-promotion by companies was next with 5.85 percent, followed by spam with 3.75 percent.
It said tweets with news from mainstream media publications accounted for 3.60 percent.
Pear said it planned to conduct the study every quarter to identify trends on Twitter.
Submission + - VMWare acquires SpringSource
sundling writes: "Creator of the popular Java Spring Framework, SpringSource has been acquired by VMWare. SpringSource itself has acquired a number of companies itself including G2One (the company behind Grails, the Java contender for the Ruby on Rails crowd) and Hyperic. SpringSource has also become home to other important Java projects like AspectJ for Aspect Oriented programming. Of all the open source Java Enterprise players, Spring tends to have vision that will definitely expand into the cloud. It was already putting the pieces together, but being acquired by VMWare should accelerate that direction."
Submission + - Current Freely Available Applications for Windows (wade82.com)
hollywoodb writes: "I've put together what I feel to be the best and brightest free software for Windows. Included are sections to accommodate most users' needs; notably omitted is a Games section. In putting together this list I found that some of my favorite Linux applications are available on Windows, and I discovered some new apps as well. Not all these apps are open source, but many are. It's exciting to find out how many more open source applications are available for Windows today compared to the last time I used the Windows platform eight years ago. What are some of your favorite free and/or open source Windows applications?"
