Comment Re:Joke (Score 1) 706
The United States, one country with 3% of the world population
The US 3% of the world population ?
Comment Re:Give an alternative for non drinkers (Score 1) 706
The alternative to the 2 euro breathalyzer is the 11 euro fine. It's your call !
The matter is not if you're going to be asked by the police to show it but when.
Submission + - Codebreaker hailed for cryptologic success (dailymail.co.uk)
KingofSpades writes: The Mail online is praising the work of Dr. John Olson, a forensic linguist who was able to read a ciphered letter sent from inside his cell by a suspect. The letter contains "a strange sequence of numbers on the back". It took three days to read it completely, but I am sure that some poeple on Slashdot will crack it faster. Spoiler alert: those interested should directly jump to the scan, not reading anything else. Other reader will enjoy reading this piece.
Comment The ISS fuels creativity and imagination (Score 2) 88
They must really bo bored up there: his collegue created a lego replica of the ISS... within the ISS.
Pretty cool, I think.
Comment Becoming an adult (Score 2) 410
Another unintended side effect is that it makes people believe that such a "right" exists.
It doesn't. The sooner people understand it, the better. This problem should be solved through education, not by forcing other people to forget, which can't be done.
Don't treat people like children, let them become adults.
Comment Re:They still use needles? (Score 2) 128
There is an explanation here http://www.archeophone.org/bismarck_moltke_en.php.
In short, scanning works well for flat 2D documents ("lateral cut").
For 3D "vertical cut", laser scanning doesn't work (yet).
Comment Specs of the Archeophone (Score 1) 128
For the technically inclined, here are the specs of the "Archeophone", the device used to listen to these recordings.
Comment Re:Not first Video of the far side of the moon (Score 1) 118
Today, cell phones record in HD.
Come one, you're sending a probe to the moon and you can't afford an HD camera ? This is nuts !
Comment Re:The answer is still keepass (Score 1) 339
True, especially if you always use the same login name, or it requires an email address for login and you've had the same email address since like forever.
I use spamgourmet as an email proxy for such websites (I recommend it!).
This means that you don't really need to track or remember all those emails. You just need to change the spamgourmet forward address when you change your primary email. The last time for me was 5 years ago or so...
Comment Re:The answer is still keepass (Score 1) 339
For very old websites I just click on "I forgot my password". It usually works !
Comment My method (Score 1) 339
The ritual is to have a tiered set of passwords:
- very simple passwords for very stupid sites
- a password commited to memory for serious web sites
- Keepass for financial websites (banking, taxes, etc.). These passwords are impossible to memorize. (Eg: JvKE5qKjOb11HdIKWf1E)
Comment This can't happen on Android (Score 2) 149
From the Android OS API reference:
isUserAMonkey (): returns "true" if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.
Does it mean that this function call does not exist on iOS ?
Comment Re:Good artists copy, great artists steal. (Score 0) 988
You need to quote the author, otherwise it is meaningless:
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
- Steve Jobs, The Triumph of the Nerds, 1996
Submission + - First European Soyuz launch sens Galileo in space (guardian.co.uk)
KingofSpades writes: A Russian Soyuz rocket launches from French Guiana carrying the first two satellites for Europe's Galileo global positioning system. Galileo is the first civilian such system. The free service will provide meter accuracy, while paying customers will be provided with centimeter accuarcy.
Comment Re:Well, in fairness... (Score 1) 84
I'm sorry to say that you're wrong on most accounts.
Astrophotography did exist and Bonilla took a photograph of the phenomenon.
No, the telescope was not aimed by hand.
And no he wasn't the only guy observing the sun at that time.
