Comment Re:Water bottle (Score 1) 71
No, see, when the Enterprise emerged from warp, they did a quick trash dump just before leaving the atmosphere.
Comment Re:Burden of enforcement (Score 1) 166
Best laugh I've had all day - mod this guy up, damn it
Comment Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA (Score 1) 387
"The banking system is closely regulated and monitored..."
Comment Re:Abby someone... (Score 1) 170
Blucher!
Comment Re:Here's what holds ME back. (Score 1) 530
I'm all for encouraging people to buy more efficient cars, but what you propose is insane - what about the rest of us who simply cannot and never will be able to afford anything more than old guzzlers that can't even reach 15mpg (city)?
How the hell am I supposed to afford $6 a gallon when gas is already almost unaffordable at $3.50 a gallon?
Who's gonna hand over 30 grand for a new car? Or the roughly 10 grand for an almost-modern used car?
No way am I gonna spend nearly that much on my old car in gas, repairs, car insurance, etc., over its remaining life, and when it dies, I go find another old guzzler I can afford.
Comment Re:Original article worth a read (Score 1) 74
He didn't. He stole it and in return gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts.
Comment Re:Yet another anti-Obama article (Score 1) 258
WARNING: The above link starts blabbing some audio recording with no apparent way to shut it up.
Comment Re:I'll belive it when I'm holding it in my hand. (Score 1) 287
Naw, it's where you keep all those photos of your and your children playing with variously-sized rings and mixtures of soap, water, and glycerine.
NASA Appointed Team Set Out Priorities For a Europa Surface Mission 83
astroengine writes "Europa has only been seen from afar, but its aura of intrigue has inspired scientists to study ideas as to how to explore the icy Jovian moon. In a new study published in the journal Astrobiology [paper], a NASA-appointed science definition team lays out the rich tapestry of discovery facing any mission to study Europa, but what questions do we need answering? 'If one day humans send a robotic lander to the surface of Europa, we need to know what to look for and what tools it should carry,' said Robert Pappalardo, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the study's lead author. 'There is still a lot of preparation that is needed before we could land on Europa, but studies like these will help us focus on the technologies required to get us there, and on the data needed to help us scout out possible landing locations. Europa is the most likely place in our solar system beyond Earth to have life today, and a landed mission would be the best way to search for signs of life.'"
Comment Re:the price is the problem (Score 1) 187
"So you use eBay as a promotional tool, but prefer for customers to perform checkout on your web site, and encourage repeat customers to use your web site."
Because doing so is somewhat contrary to eBay policy:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html
Comment Re:SHOWER RINGS!? (Score 1) 322
Forget the spoon rest - will it be able to compete with Spatula City?
Submission + - LibreOffice 4.0 dropped support for old StarOffice binary formats (libreoffice.org)
yuhong writes: LibreOffice 4.0 was released long ago now, but I want to remind users that MS Office is not alone in dropping support for old file formats. LibreOffice 4.0 dropped (not just disable) support for the old StarOffice binary formats.
Comment Re:Quote from another dead hero (Score 1) 347
Hey now, be fair. Superman did use a revolving door once, because the only phone booth nearby was rather unsuitable for the purpose.
Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software 245
another random user writes "The claim here is that the encrypted software can be executed, but not reverse-engineered. To quote from the article: 'UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. According to Sahai, previously developed techniques for obfuscation presented only a "speed bump," forcing an attacker to spend some effort, perhaps a few days, trying to reverse-engineer the software. The new system, he said, puts up an "iron wall," making it impossible for an adversary to reverse-engineer the software without solving mathematical problems that take hundreds of years to work out on today's computers — a game-change in the field of cryptography.'"
Comment Talent vs. Skill isn't the whole issue... (Score 1) 277
I'd say the bigger issue than talent (or creativity, as one poster put it) vs. skill, since both can be learned with enough effort and training, is a reasonably-congenial personality. That is to say, you might have the hottest c0d1n6 5k1llz in the world, and the actual creative thinking ability to put those skills into practical use, but you're a complete asshole, no one's going to want to work with you - either your coworkers or your next prospective employer - and you'll basically just not get anything done that an employer will be willing to pay you for.
There are good reasons not to have the talent and/or skills to do the work - maybe you can't afford the necessarily schooling, tools, etc. or you have no opportunity - but there's never a reason to be an asshole, whether you are skilled/talented or not.
