Comment RPN (Score 1) 170
Do these support RPN, I am still using my old HP 32SII and while I have been looking for an upgrade no RPN is a deal breaker.
I just can not get used anymore to a 'normal' calculator
Comment Re:Slackware on floppies (Score 1) 867
First there was slackware
Then I used SuSE for home useage and at work we used redhat.
I switched to freeBSD/openBSD for a while at home
then I used mainly LFS en aLFS but found it a bit to labour intensive so i switched to gentoo and centOs
Comment Re:And this is different...??? (Score 1) 285
Not to mention that you'll have to learn English to use any library or are they going to translate all those as well.
As a non-native English speaker that has had the torture of seeing dutch and french VB/excel I can only hope that this never takes off.
Even localized EDI's are a silly idea.
If you want to learn to program learn English, you can do both at the same time and have access to so much more information.
Comment Re:YAY the cracked the passwords (Score 1) 198
Except the guy who released the hashes most probably does have the usernames as well.
Submission + - E.U. Proposal: Give Farming Funds to Science (nature.com)
smitty777 writes: There is a proposal in the EU budget which would provide a 45% increase in technology and innovation spending for the 2014-2020 time period. Interestingly,some of the increase from $79 B to $114B would come from the controversial farm subsides program, the Common Agricultural Policy. The article states that the proposal will focus on "excellence in science, meeting 'grand challenges' such as food security, and improving competitiveness.", with a special focus on "healthy aging". While some scientists and observers feel optimistic that the proposal will pass, one stated that "it is extremely unlikely that the member states will agree to anything exceeding this, so we should regard it as a ceiling" on the eventual research budget.
Submission + - Virtual Schengen Border - Great Firewall of Europe (edri.org)
webhat writes: "During a meeting in February 2011 of the Council of the European Union's Law Enforcement Work Party (LEWP), a forum for cooperation on issues such as counter terrorism, customs and fraud, a disturbing proposal was tabled to create a "Great Firewall of Europe" by blocking "illicit" web material at the borders of the bloc with the intention to "to propose concrete measures towards creating a single secure European cyberspace.""
Comment Re:The solution is simple: (Score 1) 185
Space sharks with lasers. Duh.
On a serious note, if I was Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic, I'd start looking at clean-up contracts. While ground-based lasers may lose too much energy trying to make it out of the atmosphere, an airborne system might have a bit more punch....
Forget the sharks, Nuke 'em from orbit !
