Comment Re:Waytago, Dell! (Score 1) 321
I don't know much about it, but shouldn't disabling AMT in the BIOS essentially solve the problem?
Comment Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score 1) 572
I would wager that a majority of people these days are feminists in the sense that they want men and women to have equal opportunities and rights. Unfortunately, the word "feminism" means a lot of things to a lot of people, so most shy away from the label. To some it means "man-hater," and to others feminism is some kind of affirmative action for women.
I believe in equal treatment of men and women. I don't call myself a feminist.
Comment Re:Refreshment of memory (Score 1) 1255
So one guy's presentation was tasteless and crass. I'm a man, and I don't want porn in my programming reference materials (I would assume that even the biggest fan of porn would find it weird at the least that that was in a Ruby presentation. Java, maybe).
Comment Re:Digital distribution has been needed for a whil (Score 1) 406
I'm a US student and I got Win7 Pro from MSDNAA, but it's only available to Computer Science and Engineering students. Before that I had to torrent Win7 like the rest of Slashdot.
Comment Re:Wow. (Score 2, Insightful) 282
Do what I do with discount cards: find the phone number of someone who has one of those, then punch it in when you shop (I know Safeway lets you do this). The added bonus is that it throws off tracking of whomever you got the number from as well.
Comment That's funny (Score 1) 288
I'm deaf in my right ear, I must be tight-fisted. ;)
Comment Re:60 000$ for 50 students? (Score 2, Interesting) 116
Advanced mathematics and science textbooks are (very) expensive. My textbooks for calc-based physics, differential equations, and discrete math all ran me well over $100 (highest was $180). For some reason, the assigned textbook is also always the worst in its field...
Comment Re:depends (Score 2, Informative) 1137
Put the bike on the bus. Many have something on the front you can attach it to.
Not that I think that isn't stupid (why take the bus when you have a perfectly good bike with you?).
Comment Re:Ironic (Score 1) 120
AB is also like an intro course, just the second-quarter intro. Having taken CS AB (and gotten a 5), then taken the course it's "equivalent" to (CSE 143 here at UW-Seattle), the college version is also quite a bit more challenging (but if you can take the AP test, you can do well in the class).
Comment Re:so? (Score 2, Insightful) 343
Indeed, see:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/Viaduct/
Comment Re:Just don't (Score 1) 229
For that matter, learn modern database query techniques. That how-to guide you read over the weekend that shows you how to do
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE name= {$_POST['username']}' AND PASSWORD= '{$_POST['password']}'")
was a nice teaching tool, but PHP 5 + PDO/mysqli can accomplish this with placeholders. That's not to say you shouldn't validate your data to make sure that it's what it should be, it's just that if you screw that up but use placeholders, your damage is minimal.
Billy West Says Futurama Might Return To Fox For 6th Season 265
MajikJon writes "After strong sales of the straight-to-DVD Futurama movies, Fox is reportedly considering bringing back Futurama for a 6th season. This according to Billy West in a recent statement at the Anime Supercon in Florida. Here's me with my fingers crossed."
Court Upholds AP "Quasi-Property" Rights On Hot News 169
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A federal court ruled that the AP can sue competitors for 'quasi-property' rights on hot news, as well as for copyright infringement and several other claims. The so-called 'hot news' doctrine was created by a judge 90 years ago in another case, where the AP sued a competitor for copying wartime reporting and bribing its employees to send them a copy of unreleased news. The courts' solution was to make hot news a form of 'quasi-property' distinct from copyright, in part because facts cannot be copyrighted. But now the AP is making use of the precedent again, going after AHN which competes with the AP, alleging that they're somehow copying the AP's news. The AP has been rather busy with lawsuits lately, so even though the AP has a story about their own lawsuit, we won't link to it."
Submission + - 200 Steves support Darwin (sciam.com)
SpuriousLogic writes: Creationists often publish lists of a few dozen scientists who doubt Darwin. So in 2003 the National Center for Science Education put together a list of 200 scientists who accept evolution.
"Except that all of ours were named Steve." That was the NCSE's Eugenie Scott at last week's AAAS meeting. "And now we have one thousand scientists named Steve. Project Steve has a serious message. Approximately one percent of Americans are named Steve or Stephanie, so do the math. Our one thousand Steves represents a hundred thousand scientists accepting evolution, as opposed to the rather paltry number dissing Darwin. It's important because in states where we have major problems with anti-evolution going on, the number of scientists doubting evolution has been proclaimed to the public. I just want the press to keep asking, 'How many Steves do you have?'"
And the thousandth Steve is: "The distinguished botanist at the University of Tulane and head of the Tulane Herbarium, Steve Darwin."
"Except that all of ours were named Steve." That was the NCSE's Eugenie Scott at last week's AAAS meeting. "And now we have one thousand scientists named Steve. Project Steve has a serious message. Approximately one percent of Americans are named Steve or Stephanie, so do the math. Our one thousand Steves represents a hundred thousand scientists accepting evolution, as opposed to the rather paltry number dissing Darwin. It's important because in states where we have major problems with anti-evolution going on, the number of scientists doubting evolution has been proclaimed to the public. I just want the press to keep asking, 'How many Steves do you have?'"
And the thousandth Steve is: "The distinguished botanist at the University of Tulane and head of the Tulane Herbarium, Steve Darwin."
Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed 223
SpuriousLogic writes "There's been another delay in the schedule announced for getting the Large Hadron Collider switched back on — now it's September 2009, a year after it shut down due to a malfunction. Scientists had said they expected the $5.4B machine to be repaired by November 2008, but then pushed the date back to June 2009, before the latest delay."
