Comment Re:It's always refreshing (Score 1) 1090
Eywa has heard you!!!
Comment Re:Thanks a lot, Jackass (Score 1) 1090
No true scotsman would do such a thing...
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/
Comment Re:Thanks a lot, Jackass (Score 1) 1090
You cease being labeled the American Taliban when you cease trying to impose your religious views on the rest of us. Simple no?
Comment Re:Malthus Primer (Score 1) 1090
Except in the most developed and industrialized countries such as Japan and Sweden, the birth rate has fallen so far, they worry they may actually go extinct in a couple of centuries.
Comment Re:A kernal of sense in an insane mind (Score 1) 1090
> We should not be glorifying having 19 children when every new child strains our resources.
That's where the wars come in... Population control!
Comment Didn't you ever play cops & robbers as a kid? (Score 1) 671
In school I used to play board games such as Squad Leader, Axis & Allies, etcetera and of course somebody always ended up playing the bad guys.
Comment Fine (Score 2, Insightful) 204
Bet $1Billion you will get an F, then don't show up for the exam. For that kind of sum I won't bother repeating the year - in fact, I won't bother even going back to school.
Comment Re:bwahahahahaha (Score 1) 124
Dad? Is that you?
Submission + - Astrophotography Equatorial Mounts
Timoris writes: With the Perseids approaching rapidly, I am looking for a good beginner's motorized Equatorial mount for astrophotography. I have seen a few for $150 to $200, but apperently the motor vibrations makes for poor photographs. Orion makes good mounts, but are out of my price range ($350) and the motor is sold separately, adding to the price half over again. Does anyone have any good experiance with any low mid priced mounts?
Submission + - "howto" website created for Australian voters
Twisted64 writes: If you're interested in voting below the line in the upcoming federal election in Australia, but don't want to waste time in the booth individually ranking up to 76 candidates (for the unfortunates in New South Wales), then Cameron McCormack's website may have what you need. The website allows voters to set their preferences beforehand, dragging and dropping Stephen Conroy at the bottom of the barrel and thrusting the Sex Party into pole position (as an utterly random example). Once preferences are set, the site can generate a pdf to be printed and taken to the booth.
There's also something to educate the above-the-line voters — if you check the box for your single party of choice, the site will fill out the effective party preferences below the line. This shows that a vote for The Climate Sceptics hands first preferences to Family First, and so on.
The website claims not to harvest voting information, but for the paranoid it recommends printing out a blank ballot sheet and copying your preferences from the screen. There is also a button to set up a donkey vote when in the ballot view, in case you have trouble counting from 1 to 100.
There's also something to educate the above-the-line voters — if you check the box for your single party of choice, the site will fill out the effective party preferences below the line. This shows that a vote for The Climate Sceptics hands first preferences to Family First, and so on.
The website claims not to harvest voting information, but for the paranoid it recommends printing out a blank ballot sheet and copying your preferences from the screen. There is also a button to set up a donkey vote when in the ballot view, in case you have trouble counting from 1 to 100.
Submission + - Incoming! The Sun Unleashes CME at Earth (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "It's been an exciting day on the sun. This morning, at 08:55 UT, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) detected a C3-class flare erupt inside a sunspot cluster. 100,000 kilometers away, deep within the solar atmosphere (the corona), an extended magnetic field filled with cool plasma forming a dark ribbon across the face of the sun (a feature known as a "filament") erupted at the exact same time. It seems very likely that both eruptions were connected after a powerful shock wave produced by the flare destabilized the filament, causing the eruption. A second solar observatory, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), then spotted a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) blast into space, straight in the direction of Earth. Solar physicists have calculated that this magnetic bubble filled with energetic particles should hit Earth on August 3, so look out for some intense aurorae, a solar storm is coming..."
Submission + - Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released (lwn.net) 2
eldavojohn writes: Linus has announced the release of 3.6.35 for people to download and test after he found not a lot of changes between this week and last. The big features to look out for include: "Transparent spreading of incoming network traffic load across CPUs, Btrfs improvements, KDB kernel debugger frontend, Memory compaction and Support for multiple multicast route tables" as well as various performance and graphics improvements. Linus also praised the community saying that 'regression changes only' after rc1 improved this time around and gave numbers to back it up saying "in the 2.6.34 release, there were 3800 commits after -rc1, but in the current 35 release cycle we had less than 2000." Good to see the process is becoming more refined and controlled after the first release candidate — hopefully there's no impending burnout.
Comment Never touched C# (Score 0, Troll) 565
I use C++ for all my development, with a small smattering of perl. Learning Python is on my TODO list. Never touched C# and have no interest in learning a MS platform only language.
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Until 2 years ago, I was working at a place where embedded and DSP developers were using pure C - C++ was forbidden.
Submission + - Vatican Radio transmitters 'pose cancer risk'
FudRucker writes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10634977 There is a "coherent and significant connection" between radiation from Vatican Radio aerials and childhood cancer, researchers have said.
RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K 387
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a rare outburst of subjectivity, I commenced my blog post 'Ha ha ha ha ha' when reporting that, based upon the RIAA's disclosure form for 2008, it had paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 to recover $391,000. If they were doing it to 'send a message,' the messages have been received loud & clear: (1) the big four record labels are managed by idiots; (2) the RIAA's law firms have as much compassion for their client as they do for the lawsuit victims; (3) suing end users, or alleged end users, is a losing game. I don't know why p2pnet.net begrudges the RIAA's boss his big compensation; he did a good job... for the lawyers."
