Comment Re:This is it. (Score 1) 738
My apologies, I skipped over that part
Comment Re:This is it. (Score 1) 738
Yes I have, actually.
I've emailed both senators from my state:
And my congressman:
But thanks for assuming that I haven't done anything and being sarcastic. Hey it's ok - there's different ways to karma-whore.
Comment This is it. (Score 4, Interesting) 738
This is it, people! The end of the internet as we own it! After the ruling yesterday anyway... oh and also that combined with the fact that earlier this year we took a step towards corporate personhood, allowing corporations to participate in the political and legal process.
Say goodbye to the free and open internet. Say hello to the tiered-pricing model, and the metered-usage model. These companies don't care about the users. They care about the bottom-line and profits. The free market won't help here, because obviously they're going to strong-arm any competition.
Welcome to the Digital dark age. The US, the pioneer of the internet, will end up as a backwater province of the intarwebs.
Maybe I'm being cynical and alarmist. Oh well.
Comment Is this really that surprising? (Score 2, Interesting) 432
Everyone expected China to do this. It also means that they are saying that the Chinese in HK are different from the rest of China. I wonder if that will affect anything. Not to be cynical, but I am sure the propaganda machine will go on overdrive to put a spin on it.
Comment Re:This was done a few years ago (Score 1) 107
That was my bad. When I saw "Lance Corporal", I immediately thought "Marines".
Comment This was done a few years ago (Score 3, Informative) 107
Back then it was just an experiment. Cool to see it being used in practice. Here is the link that goes to ABC news:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2401551&page=1
Also, technically he's not a "soldier". He's a "marine". Us Army guys are "soliders"
Comment How does it go? (Score 2, Insightful) 703
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
OR
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
How terribly disappointing, Obama. At least the EU threw out this stupid treaty. Hopefully this won't be successful at all.
Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 0, Flamebait) 1343
Very bad taste.
Comment Re:Is this in the US? (Score 3, Insightful) 235
I doubt it's in the US
Comment Does it work for a new project (Score 1) 198
From what I see, it looks pretty good for working with an already existing project. It would help if they talked about starting a project from scratch using this IDE. Either way looks like something worth trying out. To all the people who say this looks like a terrible idea, I think that's rather subjective; It looks like a matter of taste (emacs vs. vi, eclipse vs. netbeans). I think it would help from a maintenance perspective (fixing bugs) or even if you're adding stuff to an existing codebase. I'd like to try this out anyway.
Submission + - LHC to shut down for a year to fix design flaws (bbc.co.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC says: "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design issues, according to an LHC director.". Dr Steve Myers also told the BBC that this will delay the collider from reaching its full potential for another two years. The problem lies in the joints between the machine's magnets, which must be strengthened before high-energy collisions (at 7 trillion eV) at commence. I wonder what this means for the search for the higgs boson.
Submission + - CherryBlossom (vivin.net)
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Comment tl;dr version (Score 1) 273
Chrome: 88
Opera: 83
Safari: 83
Firefox: 74
IE: 51
(Scores calculated by using chart on last page)
Comment Re:no OPSEC here! (Score 1) 96
Wow, that must've sucked - moving a lot! Most of the main body and ops stayed on at Camp Liberty throughout the tour. I was in the IZ initially (FOB Union III) for about two weeks. After that I came back to Liberty and stayed there for the rest of the tour. We had two platoons go up north to Ramadi during the middle of the tour.
Are you Active Army? Reserves? National Guard? Or Marines?
