Comment Oooh that smell... (Score 1, Flamebait) 165
Anyone else smell that?
*sniff sniff*
Kinda smells like someone spreading FUD...
*sniff sniff*
Kinda smells like someone spreading FUD...
Comment Parallels? (Score 1) 175
Is it just me, or could B&N's position on this be applied to the current Apple v. Samsung case?
Say, just replace all instances of Microsoft with Apple?
I know, I know, they're not the same issue in each case.
But the two sometimes act eerily similar when it comes to dealing with Android...
Could they be *dun dun dun* colluding??? :-P
Say, just replace all instances of Microsoft with Apple?
I know, I know, they're not the same issue in each case.
But the two sometimes act eerily similar when it comes to dealing with Android...
Could they be *dun dun dun* colluding???
Comment As a Kansan... (Score 1) 744
I fully condone this act. I am proud to call myself a Kansan, not proud to share this state with the likes of Fred Phelps. He gives the rest of the decent people in this state a bad name. Homosexuals are people too and he has no shred of common decency in his body, nor does any member of his "family", if they choose to persecute others as they do. At funerals no less. It really does warm my heart to hear that Anonymous has gone after Fred Phelps and his "gang". They try to spread a message of peace and "God's love", but all they do is spread a message of hate for their fellow man. F@&king hypocrites.
Sorry if I sound like troll or just a plain hatemonger. But if you were born and raised in a state where a guy like him came from, I would hope you would understand.
Sorry if I sound like troll or just a plain hatemonger. But if you were born and raised in a state where a guy like him came from, I would hope you would understand.
Comment Re:Extinct species . . . (Score 1) 471
I voted against the cloning of extinct species, ESPECIALLY raptors, because I use Randall Munroe's proactive anti-raptor material as the basis for real-life velociraptors. Which just happens to be based off of Jurassic Park.
I mean, come on, you can never be too careful....
Comment Re:I have no idea (Score 1) 559
Toasters have feelings too you insensitive clod!
Submission + - AOL's "Dirty Little Secret": 60% of AOL's Profits (huffingtonpost.com) 4
satuon writes: Ken Auletta's big New Yorker piece on AOL (subscription only) this week revealed an interesting detail about the company's inner workings. According to Auletta, 80% of AOL's profits come from subscribers, and 75% of those subscribers are paying for something they don't actually need.
Auletta lays out how this works:
The company still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of whom are older people who have cable or DSL service but don't realize that they need not pay an additional twenty-five dollars a month to get online and check their e-mail. "The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five percent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it."
Auletta lays out how this works:
The company still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of whom are older people who have cable or DSL service but don't realize that they need not pay an additional twenty-five dollars a month to get online and check their e-mail. "The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five percent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it."
Scientists Find Tears Are the Anti-Viagra
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An anonymous reader writes "The male test subjects didn't know what they were smelling, they were just given little vials of clear liquid and told to sniff. But when those vials contained a woman's tears (collected while she watched a sad movie), the men rated pictures of women's faces as less sexually attractive, and their saliva contained less testosterone. Is this proof that humans make and respond to pheromones? The researcher behind the study doesn't use that controversial word, but he says his findings do prove that tears contain meaningful chemical messages."
Submission + - Mass bird death - now in Sweden (thelocal.se) 3
An anonymous reader writes: Just a few days after the eery mass death of birds in Bebee, Arkansas, a similar event has been reported from Falköping, Sweden. Between 50 and 100 jackdaws were found dead on the ground according to reports from Swedish National Radio. No explanation has been found for either event and hence no causal connection can be made.
Submission + - 2011-the year when Google will turn into an enemy (lacisoft.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: An article about the recent issues with Google and why 2011 will be the year when we will witness something that a few years ago we couldn’t believe. We will witness Google turning from friend to foe.
Submission + - Solar-Power Produced Liquid Fuel to Replace Oil?
FordPrefect276709 writes: ETH Life announced [ethz.ch] (Google translated — original in german) today researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) successfully tested a new reactor to convert solar energy to liquid fuel. According to the original article [sciencemag.org] in science, a solar cavity-receiver reactor was used to combine the oxygen uptake and release capacity of cerium oxide and facile catalysis at elevated temperatures to thermochemically dissociate CO2 and H2O, yielding CO and H2, respectively. Stable and rapid generation of fuel was demonstrated over 500 cycles. The combination of CO and H2 is commonly referred to as syngas and is a precursor of gasoline, kerosene and other liquid fuels.
The prototype reactor was tested using a radiation intensity that corresponds to the force of 1,500 suns. While the conversion efficiency of solar power to fuel "only" amounted to a mere 0.8 percent, this is two orders of magnitude better than before and an efficiency of 19 percent could theoretically be expected. Research will take another ten years until we see solar power plants to produce versatile fuels — but this would be well in time to replace oil. Are deserts the next oil fields...?
The prototype reactor was tested using a radiation intensity that corresponds to the force of 1,500 suns. While the conversion efficiency of solar power to fuel "only" amounted to a mere 0.8 percent, this is two orders of magnitude better than before and an efficiency of 19 percent could theoretically be expected. Research will take another ten years until we see solar power plants to produce versatile fuels — but this would be well in time to replace oil. Are deserts the next oil fields...?
Submission + - Everything you wanted to know about the MOS 6502
mcpublic writes: The MOS 6502 microprocessor is famous among the vintage computing and classic gaming crowds. It was used inside the Apple II, the Commodore 64, the Atari 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Need I say more? In 2010, the chip's 35th anniversary year, reverse engineers came out in droves and published more details about the 6502 than ever before—yes, really! For the assembly language crowd there is Michael Steil's excellent 50 minute talk on the 6502's architecture and instruction set delivered at 27C3, the video posted just yesterday. Or maybe you just want a quick read on 6502 history and some awesome reverse engineering efforts? Check out Russ Cox's blog. But if you are looking for the original 6502 netlist, accurate down to the last undocumented instruction, or want to run an animated 6502 chip simulation in your browser, you'll definitely want to visit Greg James, Barry and Brian Silverman's visual6502.org web site. These pied pipers have attracted an enthusiastic following of like-minded engineers who are now photographing and disecting even more classic chips.
Submission + - The 12 Scams of Christmas and Other Attacks (huffingtonpost.com)
RobertSiciliano writes: Identity Thieves and Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers' Money, Identities and Financial Information. As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, be cautious.
Comment Re:Soda? I call it pop! Join my fight! (Score 1) 500
This Boracay stuff definitely sounds like its worth a try. And I'm right with you on the Irish coffee. However Four Loko is actually fairly cheap. $2.50 for a 23.5 oz can with 12 percent alcohol content. Great if you wanna drink on the cheap and don't care about taste ;-)
Comment Re:Soda? I call it pop! Join my fight! (Score 1) 500
But was it because of the drink? Or their drinking habits? I too heard about those people, but I think someone is just looking for a scapegoat. I live in a typical college town and it's become pretty popular here, but we have yet to have any hospitalizations because of it. Kegs on the other hand...
I don't drink it regularly, but if I wanna drink on the cheap, it works in a pinch
I don't drink it regularly, but if I wanna drink on the cheap, it works in a pinch
Comment Re:Soda? I call it pop! Join my fight! (Score 1) 500
+1 It's definitely pop, not soda, around here at least (Kansas). You get amusingly dumb looks when you call it soda.
On a side note, anyone try one of those energy drink/alcoholic beverages? Four Loko showed up here a few months ago and its causing quite a stir, as well as some "interesting" late nights.
On a side note, anyone try one of those energy drink/alcoholic beverages? Four Loko showed up here a few months ago and its causing quite a stir, as well as some "interesting" late nights.
