Comment Seagulls (Score 1) 210
Why don't we domesticate seagulls and make them drag the satellites down from orbit. A couple of seagull farms should be a lot cheaper than attaching huge balloons to space junk.
MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum 175
gbooch writes "The Computer History Museum, located in Mountain View, California, is not only a museum of hardware but also a museum of software. Today, with the permission of Apple, the Museum has made available the original source code of MacPaint.
MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, a member of the original Macintosh development team. Originally called MacSketch, he based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the Apple Lisa computer. Bill started work on the Macintosh version in early 1983. "
Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law 293
Sir Mal Fet writes "Chile has become the first country in the world to approve, by 100 votes in favor and one abstention, a law guaranteeing net neutrality (Google translation; Spanish original). The law states [submitter's translation]: 'No [ISP] can block, interfere with, discriminate, hinder, nor restrict the right of any Internet user of using, send, receive or offer any content, application, or legitimate service through the Internet, as well as any activity or legitimate use conducted through the Internet.' The law also has articles that force ISPs to provide parental control tools, clarify contracts, guarantee users' privacy and safety when surfing, and forbids them to restrict any liberty whatsoever. This is a major advance in the legislation of the country regarding the Web, when until last year almost anything that was performed online was considered illegal."
Comment Re:md5? (Score 1) 380
Yes I know, I was simply being brief.
Comment Prior art (Score 1) 83
I invented the same thing back in the dark ages. I called it "rope with spring" and the patent is still pending.
Comment Re:md5? (Score 5, Funny) 380
So what's the maximum length message that an MD5 number can hold?
Infinite - 1
Deformable Liquid Mirrors For Adaptive Optics 196
eldavojohn writes "Want to make a great concave mirror for your telescope? Put a drop of mercury in a bowl and spin the bowl. The mercury will spread out to a concave reflective surface smoother than anything we can make with plain old glass right now. The key problem in this situation is that the bowl will always have to point straight up. MIT's Technology Review is analyzing a team's success in combating problems with bringing liquid mirrors into the practical applications of astronomy. To fight the gravity requirement, the team used a ferromagnetic liquid coated with a metal-like film and very strong magnetic fields to distort the surface of that liquid as they needed. But this introduces new non-linear problems of control when trying to sync up several of these mirrors similar to how traditional glass telescopes use multiple hexagonal mirrors mounted on actuators. The team has fought past so many of these problems plaguing liquid mirrors that they produced a proof of concept liquid mirror just five centimeters across with 91 actuators cycling at one kilohertz and the ability to linearize the response of the liquid. And with that, liquid mirrors take a giant leap closer to practicality."
Submission + - Thorium will save the world if we give it a chance (number10.gov.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: There is a little known secret in the nuclear industry, there is a way to provide very cheap AND very safe nuclear power...
The catch is its almost impossible to create materials for a bomb, and there is little or no reprocessing tie in
believe it or not you could put a whole reactor in something the size of a cargo container... which makes the whole
Iraq argument go away overnight
Thorium is very abundant compared with other nuclear fuels and needs far less processing making it much cheaper
as most of it is "burn" in the reaction, the waste is less in volume with the most dangerous component being tiny and
only needs storage for 300 years...
If you're not up to speed on the amazing properties and use for thorium see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeM-Dyuk6g
for a quick run down
without exaggeration if we give thorium a chance it could save us from global warming
If you're a UK resident don't forget to sign up to the petition!
The catch is its almost impossible to create materials for a bomb, and there is little or no reprocessing tie in
believe it or not you could put a whole reactor in something the size of a cargo container... which makes the whole
Iraq argument go away overnight
Thorium is very abundant compared with other nuclear fuels and needs far less processing making it much cheaper
as most of it is "burn" in the reaction, the waste is less in volume with the most dangerous component being tiny and
only needs storage for 300 years...
If you're not up to speed on the amazing properties and use for thorium see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeM-Dyuk6g
for a quick run down
without exaggeration if we give thorium a chance it could save us from global warming
If you're a UK resident don't forget to sign up to the petition!
Submission + - French anti-piracy logo uses pirated fonts 2
pla writes: Cory Doctorow reports (and
FontFeed confirms, with
better fact-checking) that the French governmental agency in charge of enforcing their new "Three Strikes" Law, Hadopi, has made
use of not just one, but two unlicensed fonts in their official logo.
One of these, "Bienvenue", exists only as a privately owned font designed exclusively for France Telecom with no licensing terms available whatsoever. Hadopi claims they never intended that version of the logo for release — Despite having registered it (complete with infringing fonts) as a trademark two months ago. For the other font used in their logo (including both the original and the replacement), "Bliss", they didn't purchase a license to use it until the very day they found it necessary to release a non-infringing replacement logo.
One of these, "Bienvenue", exists only as a privately owned font designed exclusively for France Telecom with no licensing terms available whatsoever. Hadopi claims they never intended that version of the logo for release — Despite having registered it (complete with infringing fonts) as a trademark two months ago. For the other font used in their logo (including both the original and the replacement), "Bliss", they didn't purchase a license to use it until the very day they found it necessary to release a non-infringing replacement logo.
Submission + - SPAM: Nano-scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accurac
destinyland writes: A New York professor has built "a two-armed nanorobotic device with the ability to place specific atoms and molecules where scientists want them." The nano-scopic device is just 150 x 50 x 8 nanometers in size — over a million could fit inside a single red blood cell. But because of its size, it's able to build nanoscale structures and machines — including a nanoscale walking biped and even sequence-dependent molecular switch arrays!
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Comment Manypulation? (Score 1) 168
Those not on the list should be suspected of manipulating the list
Comment Disks? (Score 5, Informative) 533
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 1) 1359
I regret that posting. Anyway, that letter is "L" if capitalized. (curricululm)
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 1) 1359
Sorry, I'm not entirely sober. Please remove an "l" from my previous post.
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 0, Troll) 1359
As a non-native english speaking person I can say that your written english is lacking somewhat for a serious curricululm vitae. At least your post is.
