Comment Obligatory (Score 5, Funny) 448
Hogan!!!
Comment Re:Fallacious (Score 2) 295
Then post the whole contents of his reply email, with his name. A reply at all was more than I would have expected.
Comment Oh The Humanity! (Score 1) 130
As God as my witness, I thought laptops could fly!
Why Fingernails On a Chalkboard Sound Painful 176
sciencehabit writes "Some sounds are excruciating. Take fingernails squeaking on a chalkboard. The noise makes many people shudder, but researchers never knew exactly why. A new study finds that there are two factors at work: the knowledge of where the sound is coming from and the unfortunate design of our ear canals. 'The offending frequencies were in the range of 2000 to 4000 Hz. Removing those made the sounds much easier to listen to. Deleting the tonal parts of the sound entirely also made listeners perceive the sound as more pleasant, whereas removing other frequencies or the noisy, scraping parts of the sound made little difference.'"
iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 148
Diggester writes "Unless their chipset has already been exploited and jailbroken on a previous device, it takes a lot of time for the iOS jailbreaking community to jailbreak for a new iOS device. The iPhone 4S and iPad 2, both of which are based on a still unexploited dual-core A5 chip, haven't received a jailbreak for iOS 5 yet. However, it appears they'll be getting one soon, as a certain eminent iPhone hacker has let us know that the iPhone 4S has jailbroken, and a jailbreak for the iPad 2 is in the works." In related news, Hackers have succeeded in bringing a limited port of Apple's new Siri voice assistant feature onto jailbroken versions of the iPhone 4 and the fourth-generation iPod touch.
Comment HoloDesk? (Score 0) 85
Doesn't Paramount own the trademark on HoloDeck? And would this be too close for comfort?
Comment Re:Really? They are *all* accounted for? (Score 1) 255
Not only that, but do they have little brands so you don't get them mixed up with someone else's bees?
Comment Effects on Dual Boot? (Score 1) 386
So even if I can disable Secure Boot, does this mean I have to go into the UEFI and re-enable it each time I boot back to Windows 8?
At best, this is going to be a pain in the ass for people who dual boot.
At best, this is going to be a pain in the ass for people who dual boot.
Comment Re:I see what you did there... (Score 1) 389
So this would appear to preclude any possibility to dual-boot Windows 8 and and just about anything else?
Am I right?
Am I right?
Comment UFIA (Score 1) 379
Read UEFI as UFIA. On further review, yep, that's about right.
Comment Re:The Covenant... (Score 1) 108
Came in here looking for a Halo reference, leaving satisified.
Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 1) 140
Justice Dept ought to just look at AT&T, say, "We split you up before, we can do it again if you like, hmmm? So siddown and STFU!"
Comment Re:why is it (Score 1) 188
Where do you think Carl Sagan got most of his ideas?
Europa Selected As Target of Next Flagship Mission 168
volcanopele writes "NASA and the European Space Agency announced today that they have selected the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next large mission to the outer solar system. For the last year, the Europa mission has been in competition with a proposal to send a mission to Saturn's moon Titan, as reported on Slashdot earlier. The Europa Mission includes two orbiters: one developed by NASA to orbit the icy moon Europa and another developed by ESA to orbit the solar system's largest moon, Ganymede. Both orbiters would spend up to 2.5 years in orbit around Jupiter before settling into orbit around their respective targets, studying Jupiter's satellites, rings, and of course the planet itself. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2020 and arrive at Jupiter in 2025 and 2026."
Comment Re:This looks like something from Half Life (Score 1) 249
No, Mr. Bond, I want you to die!!!
