Comment Re:Pancreas (Score 1) 544
Just for the record: mercury and lead don't give you cancer. Yes, heavy metals are toxic, but their biological effects are different from cancer.
Comment Re:Pssh nice prior art dude (Score 5, Insightful) 81
A method "obvious to a person that is well-versed in an art" is not supposed to be patentable either. Except Apple added "on a mobile phone", and THEN, well, it changed everything!
Comment Pssh nice prior art dude (Score 4, Insightful) 81
Comment Re:Now with Arf IV engines! (Score 1) 33
Silly answer: It's a Terrier Malemute with an improve Malemute upper stage.
Serious answer: it's a sounding rocket based on the US Navy RIM-2 Terrier surface-to-air missile from the 1950s as the first stage, with a Thiokol Malemute upper stage. The Terrier is used as a first stage for a variety of small rockets.
A recent launch of note that used Terrier-Malemute variants was ATREX.
Comment Good choice (Score 1) 158
Baskerville is a good font. Maybe not the best for everything, but nice. Definitely preferable to shit like Bleeding Cowboy
Comment why this happens (Score 1) 597
According to a number of sources, the reason this happens is related to the way YouTube partners with companies like Scripps. Essentially, when one of YouTube's enterprise customers uploads a video, in the process of making it available YouTube kicks off an automated search that immediately goes looking for other copies of that video, already online.
This is why a video that's been on YouTube for months or years and is clearly someone else's property can get shown on a late night talk show and then suddenly get a copyright takedown
In short, YouTube assumes that if one of their paying partners uploads a video, it must belong to the company, and no matter how long that content has been on YouTube before Scripps, NBC, or whoever uploads their copy, it must be a pirated copy.
Windows 8 Is Ready 558
New submitter drinkydoh writes "In an announcement today, Microsoft has finally said that Windows 8 is now complete. Microsoft has begun delivering RTM versions to manufacturers and the general availability of the tablets and computers using Windows 8 will be on October 26th. 'Microsoft's final milestone concludes almost two years of development for its new Metro-inspired Windows 8 software and marks the beginning of the release phase. Microsoft says MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to download it from August 15th. Windows Store will go live on August 15th. Developers will be able to access the final tools and submission process for Metro style apps at the Windows Dev Center later this month.'"
Comment desktop? (Score 1) 308
People still use desktop email clients?
Facebook Testing the Want Button 147
redletterdave writes "Facebook already knows what you 'Like.' Soon, it may ask you what you 'Want'. Tom Waddington, a Web developer for the craft website Cut Out + Keep, discovered that Facebook has included code for a disabled 'Want' button within the Javascript of its list of social plug-ins. The code was released to the Facebook Javascript SDK last Wednesday, but Waddington discovered the disabled button among other embedded tags, including 'degrees,' 'social context' and 'page events.' Waddington says the 'Want' button would work with Open Graph projects that use the tag 'products.'"
Comment Re:Having issues with java/systems? try this (Score 1) 284
Calling date with a time will set the clock, but the string given must match the expect format. Using -s just allows for a more free-form time/date string.
Comment Re:Having issues with java/systems? try this (Score 1) 284
Ah hah, and clock_settime() will get the kernel's attention to clear the deadlock.
Comment Re:out of a state you want (Score 1) 284
Is this John Wayne? Is this me?
Comment Re:Having issues with java/systems? try this (Score 1) 284
That's a fix? Other than shutting down ntp, what does it do? date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"` is pretty much a no-op.
Comment Re:Obviously a functional unit (Score 1) 206
Microsoft does hire the best people in the field, but they also have a retention problem. Just look up the big names that are former MS folks. Among the things credited to ex-Microsofties: Picnik, stackoverflow, Zillow, Valve, Cranium, and Zappos.
Comment failures (Score 1) 206
If I don't get to play with the thing until I can invoke a crash or at least a major system error, I don't consider it "hands-on". Nearly any nitwit can set up a demo where the reviewer is allowed to push a certain button and the right thing happens. Hand over the device to someone while they poke at prod at it in ways the creators never imagined.
