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Comment Re:Job program. (Score 1) 578

Actually it'd be a whole lot easier to rent a moving van, pack it with some fertilizer(acquired over a few months or something) and diesel fuel and blow it up somewhere then it would be to hijack a plane. Still I think it's pretty retarded. The US is becoming a police state. Soon it'll be, "papers please", while walking down the street.

Comment Would be nice... (Score 1) 917

But will never happen in the current USA. USA is "ME ME ME, why should I have to pay for someone else's health care or schooling????". IMO they are very short sighted because when it's their turn to need health care and it's not there, they sure would wish it was like it is in other countries.

Comment Pretty sure I know exactly what it's used for (Score 1) 362

We all probably know the phone can get the gps location of a cell tower over the cellular network and that the iPhone uses this to get an initial location fix. Or it will only use this cell tower location rather than power up the GPS if you ask the phone(through code) for a rough estimate of location, because sometimes that is all you need. The iPhone is all about power saving so I believe all this is is a local cache of all known cell tower locations.

Think about it for a second. The iPhone talks to a tower, finds out it's location and stores it locally. Next time any application requests a location through Location Services, the phone looks in the cache and instead of using the cellular network(which will use battery power), they read it from the cache.

Comment Re:To all "They're not REAL scientists!" posters (Score 1, Insightful) 308

One that comes to mind was can you take off in an airplane if the plane is on a treadmill and the plane is going the same speed as the treadmill. i.e. the plane isn't moving at all through the air, has zero velocity relative to the ground and the wheels are moving at the exact rate as the treadmill. They didn't seem to understand the concept of relative movement. Of course the plane's engine can overcome the backwards movement of the treadmill and get enough airspeed to still achieve lift. The same thing happens if you try and take off in a tail wind. If you have a 10kt tail wind, the plane has to be going 10kt forward relative to the ground in order have zero airspeed. The plane engine can of course propel/pull the plane more than 10kts so it can overcome this tailwind or treadmill.

Comment Re:Uh, don't we maybe NEED that hormone? (Score 1) 404

It's possible it might just be temporary. There's a negative feedback loop where if you have more testosterone floating around than your body thinks you should, the body will reduce testosterone production. This is why if you go on testosterone either for HRT or supra-physiological doses, your body will stop producing it's own.
Editorial

Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development 831

Hugh Pickens writes "Ted Dziuba has an interesting and amusing post on how he made a big mistake when he was offered a choice for his company laptop. His options were a Lenovo Thinkpad or a MacBook Pro, and he picked the Mac, thinking it would be closer to what he was used to. So what's wrong with using the Mac as a development machine for Milo, a Python application backed by PostgreSQL and Redis? 'I've only poked around a little, but so far I've found three separate package managers for OS X: Fink, MacPorts & Homebrew,' writes Dziuba, adding that when you are older, you will understand the value of automated version dependency satisfaction. Next is that your development platform should be as close as possible to your production platform, but 'OS X and Linux have different kernels, which means different I/O & process schedulers, different file systems, and a whole host of other implementation details that you'll write off as having been abstracted away until you have your first serious encounter with "It Works On My Machine.'" Finally, he says, Textmate sucks. 'Sooner or later, you have to face facts. Man up and learn Emacs.'"
Cellphones

Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' 792

jbrodkin writes "Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software pioneer Richard Stallman, who refuses to own one. 'Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop.' Even the open source Android is dangerous because devices ship with proprietary executables, Stallman says in a wide-ranging interview on the state of the free software movement. Despite some progress, Stallman is still dismayed by 'The existence and use of non-free software [which] is a social problem. It's an evil. And our aim is a world without that problem.'"
Slashdot.org

Slashdot Launches Re-Design 2254

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design in our 13.5 year history, and I don't think it looks half bad. The new theme represents a serious gutting of the underlying HTML and CSS, as well as all-new graphics. There will be many design wiggles, bug squashes, and compatibility glitches that survived testing, so bear with us for a bit. Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently in charge of such things. Thanks to him, Wes, Vlad, Dean, Phil and Tim, who have each worked hard to get this out the door. Juggling the needs of users, editors, and various business functions is a hard job, and you guys did good.

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