Comment Re:cue the bad superhero jokes ... (Score 1) 162
Your super farseeing power were a little bit off, just 4 minutes late. Not so bad actually.
Comment Re:soundes extremely dangerous (Score 1) 419
isn't the voltage across ultracapacitors really large with a large charge? if that cap explodes, i could see it being very very bad.
also what about times when the bus doesn't need to pick up or drop of passengers? just stop the bus anyways?
Don't they stop for traffic lights anyway? Don't see how much difference that'd make.
Comment Re:10 years ago, sound DID work reliably in Linux (Score 1) 815
I meant "playback/capture parameters". For example, if you want low delay audio, you need to set the period size and the number of periods, but there's no set of values that are guaranteed to work. A good API should be transparent and work the same way for any card.
Comment Re:Transformers was ruined (Score 1) 82
It's weird I love a sleazy action film but I when they had the mother getting high (L O L) and the knee high camera shots of girls' arses, all I could think was "this is a film being at least partly marketed at 10 year olds?". It's not something I would have taken kids to.
Comment Re:Learn to dance (Score 1) 1354
If it flies, floats or fucks. Rent it!
Submission + - Unexpectedly bright comet appears in night sky
swordgeek writes: Comet 17P/Holmes, a relatively obscure and dim object has suddenly flared to be literally a million times brighter than it was two days ago, going from below magnitude 14 to 2.8 in less than 24 hours. It is just outside of the constellation Perseus, which puts it high in the sky and ideal for viewing at this time of year.
The comet is now readily visible with the naked eye, and remarkable in binoculars or a telescope. This is a completely unexpected once-in-a-lifetime event, so get out your finest optics (even if it's just your eyes) and go comet watching! No one knows how long this will last, so grab the chance while it's there.
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Submission + - Social Networking For The Digitally Unhinged...
An anonymous reader writes: London, England — Whitedust.net today launched the web's first and only social networking site
dedicated to the underground hacking community. After six long months in beta testing, the Hakspace.net social network has been launched. "Free from the constraints and expectations of the mainstream, Hakspace.net is a place for like minded hackers, crackers and whitehats to communicate in an open, independent and anonymous manner. A place for security enthusiasts to assert their creations, agendas and theories. The first hacker soapbox".
