Comment tranferring to Namecheap? (Score 1) 203
I might as well. But NOT TODAY - why put such a strain on their services...
Comment Re:SQL too (Score 1) 435
BHB for true symmetrical redundancy.
I think OHO would be even better... Or, OOO. But, of course, if you really want true symmetrical mufti-dimensional redundancy, then you have to go with just O
Comment Re:RIP Skype (Score 5, Informative) 207
Skype was like this long before Microsoft. Fring supported video calls to Skype clients for several months, then Skype blocked it:
http://blog.fring.com/en/?p=2322
Comment not music (Score 1) 239
This is white noise. Or generated sound. I wouldn't call it "music" if it's composed using science instead of talent and inspiration...
Comment it looks like... (Score 1) 378
women are now returning to computer science
Where?!!!
Comment Re:I always thought... (Score 1) 100
Not sure towing would work... Germany is more compact/urban, they have real public transportation and use it (unlike us here in the US).
Comment USPS (Score 1) 473
...could try becoming an alternative ISP. The one where public interests count...
Comment Everyone brace (Score 1) 187
for the incoming flood of "in soviet Russia" jokes...
'I Just Need a Programmer' 735
theodp writes "As head of the CS Department at the University of Northern Iowa, Eugene Wallingford often receives e-mail and phone calls from eager entrepreneurs with The Next Great Idea. They want to change the world, and they want Prof. Wallingford to help them. They just need a programmer. 'Many idea people,' observes Wallingford, 'tend to think most or all of the value [of a product] inheres to having the idea. Programmers are a commodity, pulled off the shelf to clean up the details. It's just a small matter of programming, right?' Wrong. 'Writing the program is the ingredient the idea people are missing,' he adds. 'They are doing the right thing to seek it out. I wonder what it would be like if more people could implement their own ideas.'"
Comment Re:Obama should just call for elections (Score 2, Informative) 1530
Three questions:
- Did the premiums not go up last year (or the year before last)?
- If "Yes" on the previous - did the premiums go up faster this year then before?
- Do you really expect a reform of such proportion to have an immediate effect?
Submission + - Is fracking good or bad (cnn.com)
ca111a writes: CNN Money has an article with EPA's Director of Science Policy answering some questions about hydro-fracturing. EPA is planning to conduct a two-year study of this issue, but right now it's practically unregulated. Considering how even a far more familiar and well regulated technologies can sometimes create an enormous disaster, I feel quite uncomfortable hearing that EPA only now starting to look at the issue and acting as if they know nothing about it. The process itself "has been used for over 60 years in more than one million wells". And the way they call the process only adds more worry...
Comment Re:Stop Sleepwalking! (Score 1) 278
let's just hope T-Mobile has coverage in the middle of nowhere...
Comment Re:simple solution: (Score 1) 546
improbability donut - here, corrected that for ya :)
Comment Re:My excuse (Score 2, Interesting) 376
I biked to work couple times, but then decided not to.
The problem is - you share the road with *cars*. So, unless there is a dedicated bike trail or a separate bike lane, it is simply too dangerous. First: the drivers do not want to share the road with a slow moving object - not only bikes, but even seniors for example. Fortunately for seniors, they are usually inside very big and somewhat safe cars. Bicyclists are not. Second: chances of staying intact in an accident for a bicyclist are much lower compared to those of a car driver/passenger. Now, let's combine the first and the second... And I haven't even started with bad weather, visibility issues or intentional desire to hurt a bicyclist (ugly, but possible).
